A masterpiece

The Times

Flanagan's masterpiece

Washington Post

Lyrical and hilarious, tender and wildly angry by turns, it dazzlingly reconceives the form of the novel

Observer

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<i>Gould's Book of Fish</i> is a novel about fish in the way that <i>Moby-Dick</i> is a novel about whales, <i>Ulysses</i> is a novel about the events of a single day

New York Times

A vivid, voluptuous, exhilarating writer

Sunday Telegraph

Hugely original... Passages burn with the intense pleasure of story-making, of the abandon that comes from a seething of ideas and their joyful mutation into words

- Alex Clark, Guardian

A seamless masterpiece of the grotesque

Independent on Sunday

Outstanding

- Robert Macfarlane, Spectator

As beautiful to look at as it was enthralling to read

Independent

Hugely involving, clever, witty and tender

Metro

FROM THE BESTSELLING BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR

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.

'A masterpiece' The Times

'Flanagan's masterpiece' Washington Post

'Outstanding' Robert Macfarlane, Spectator

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FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014

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.

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784702892
Publisert
2016-05-26
Utgiver
Vintage Publishing; Vintage
Vekt
333 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. His novels Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, Wanting and The Narrow Road to the Deep North have received numerous honours and are published in 42 countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North in 2014.