Gould's Book of Fish. A Novel in Twelve Fish. - Brossura

Richard Flanagan

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ISBN 10: 1843540703 ISBN 13: 9781843540700

Casa editrice: Atlantic Books, 2003

Riassunto

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 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....

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A seamless masterpiece --Peter Carty, Independent on Sunday
I urge you to read it --Robert MacFarlane, Observer
A truly great book that will be read by serious people long after most of the literary fiction of our time is forgotten --Richard Holloway, Sunday Herald
A masterpiece --John Burnside, The Times
Hugely original --Alex Clark, The Guardian
Gould's Book of Fish is a novel about fish the way Ulysses is a novel about the events of a single day --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
A strange and amazing book --Alex Linklater, Prospect

L'autore:

Richard Flanagan is the author of three novels which have all been published to international acclaim: Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping and Gould's Book of Fish. His latest novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize 2014. He lives with his family in West Hobart, Tasmania.

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• Editore: Atlantic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1843540703
• ISBN 13: 9781843540700
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 404