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Goldsboro Books

978-1843540700

Gould's Book of Fish: a novel in twelve fish

Gould's Book of Fish: a novel in twelve fish

by Richard Flanagan

Publisher Atlantic Books

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  • UK First Edition
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  • Hardcover

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  • Book Condition & Notes

    Fine first edition with some bruising to the top and bottom of the spine. In a near-fine, unclipped dust jacket with some foxing on the front and back cover and some slight discolouration.

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About the book

Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Once upon a time, miraculous things happened...

About the Author

Richard Flanagan

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