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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 26/05/2016
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ISBN: 9781784702892
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Length: 480 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 28mm x 129mm
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Weight: 330g
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RRP: £9.99
Gould's Book of Fish
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. 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.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 26/05/2016
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ISBN: 9781784702892
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Length: 480 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 28mm x 129mm
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Weight: 330g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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A masterpiece
The Times
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Flanagan's masterpiece
Washington Post
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Lyrical and hilarious, tender and wildly angry by turns, it dazzlingly reconceives the form of the novel
Observer
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Gould's Book of Fish is a novel about fish in the way that Moby-Dick is a novel about whales, Ulysses is a novel about the events of a single day
New York Times
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A vivid, voluptuous, exhilarating writer
Sunday Telegraph
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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
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A seamless masterpiece of the grotesque
Independent on Sunday
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Outstanding
Robert Macfarlane, Spectator
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As beautiful to look at as it was enthralling to read
Independent
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Hugely involving, clever, witty and tender
Metro
