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Gould's book of fish : a novel in twelve fish / by Richard Flanagan.

Title
Gould's book of fish : a novel in twelve fish / by Richard Flanagan.
Author
Flanagan, Richard, 1961-
Publication
Sydney : Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2002.

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Description
445 p. : col. ill.; 20 cm.
Summary
"Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict 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, condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and there ordered to paint a book of fish. -- BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Gould, William Buelow, 1803-1853 > Fiction
  • Marine animals in art > Fiction
  • Prisoners as artists > Fiction
  • Penal colonies > Fiction
  • Fishes in art > Fiction
  • Prisoners > Fiction
  • Painters > Fiction
  • Australia > Fiction
Genre/Form
Fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0330363786
OCLC
  • 57635218
  • SCSB-12068141
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library