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<p><p>published In Hardcover To Outstanding Acclaim On Both Sides Of The Atlantic, And Winner Of The Prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize, Gould's Book Of Fish Is A Marvelously Imagined Epic Of Nineteenth-century Australia -- A World Of Convicts And Colonists, Thieves And Catamites, Whose Bloody History Is Recorded In A Very Unusual Taxonomy Of Fish. Widely Hailed As A Masterpiece And A Work Of Genius, It Stands Out As One Of The Best Novels Of Recent Years. Billy Gould Was A Forger And Thief Sentenced To Life Imprisonment In A Penal Colony In Van Diemen's Land -- Now Tasmania. After Six Months He Escaped And Boarded A Whaler For The Americas, But Before Long His Adventures Landed Him Back In Prison. The Prison Doctor Lempriere Utilizes Gould's Painting Talents To Create An Illustrated Taxonomy Of The Country's Exotic Sea Creatures, Which Lempriere Madly Believes Will Assure His Place In History And The Royal Society. Lost And Re-created, Destroyed And Hidden, Gould's Book Finally Resurfaces In The Present Day Littered With Scrawls Recording His Unutterably Strange Life -- Part Freewheeling Picaresque, Part Tragicomedy -- And That Of His Country, A Penal Colony, Settlement, And M

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Author

Flanagan, Richard, 1961-

Publisher

New York: Grove Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780330363037

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.69 / 5 (111 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14