Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781843540700 (1843540703)
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Pages no: 404
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Writing,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Books About Books,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Australia,
Tasmania
bookshelves: australia, autumn-2012, colonial-overlords, victorian, historical-fiction, hardback, one-penny-wonder, dodgy-narrator, published-2001, library-in-norway, teh-brillianz, bedside Read from November 23 to 28, 2012 A NOVEL IN TWELVE FISHInside dust jacket: Once upon a time that was call...
This is probably the most bizarre book I've ever read, but it was fantastic! So funny and weird and touching it's impossible to do it justice in words - a book to be experienced rather than read.
A NOVEL IN TWELVE FISHInside dust jacket: 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 aman named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late th...
Billy Gould, prisoner, Sarah Island Penal Colony, Tasmania, 1830ish:“The truth is that there is something irretrievably fishy about us all.For many years I have been painting fish, & I would have to say that what once was an imposition – what started out as an order, became a cosy push then a crimin...
I finished this and immediately wanted to read it again.
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