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The Resource Gould's book of fish, Richard Flanagan

Gould's book of fish, Richard Flanagan

Label
Gould's book of fish
Title
Gould's book of fish
Statement of responsibility
Richard Flanagan
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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 and forger, condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Once upon a time, there were miracles...Richard Flanagan's Commonwealth Prize-winning classic is published here for the first time in Vintage Classics
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1961-
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Flanagan, Richard
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
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  • Gould, William Buelow
  • Penal colonies
  • Marine animals in art
  • Prisoners as artists
  • Prisoners
  • Painters
  • Fishes in art
  • Australia
Target audience
adult
Label
Gould's book of fish, Richard Flanagan
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
Originally published: Sydney, N.S.W.: Picador, 2001
Carrier category
volume
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Dimensions
20 cm.
Extent
447 pages
Isbn
9781742755090
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Media category
unmediated
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(Sirsi) a120221
Label
Gould's book of fish, Richard Flanagan
Publication
Copyright
Note
Originally published: Sydney, N.S.W.: Picador, 2001
Carrier category
volume
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Dimensions
20 cm.
Extent
447 pages
Isbn
9781742755090
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Media category
unmediated
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(Sirsi) a120221

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