- Title:
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Gould's Book of Fish
- Written by:
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Richard Flanagan
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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10 hours 47 minutes
- Published:
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June 01 2004
- Available Date:
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June 01 2004
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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174094612X
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781740946124
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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International bestseller
Shortlisted Audie Awards / Literary Fiction 2005
Shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2002
Winner The Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2002
Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 2002
"A vivid, voluptuous, exhilarating writer."
The Sunday Telegraph
"A masterpiece."
The Times
From the award-winning author of Wanting.
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 ...
"Flanagan's fact-based fiction is a miraculously vulgar and sensationally evocative listen. The story of Billy Gould, a convict who has been sent to Van Dieman's Land, a Tasmanian penal colony, in 1828, reveals in graphic detail both the essence of inhumanity and bizarre acts of humanity. This vivid description of prison life combined with the story's surrealistic miracles could be a life-changing experience for the listener. Taking his cue from the enormous imagination of the author, Humphrey Bower catches the excessive vitality of Gould. Sometimes the manic pace of his narration overwhelms the novel's quieter moments, but the convict himself would probably not be disturbed. Prepare yourself to be drawn in, tossed about, horrified, and totally dazzled."
AudioFile Magazine