Gould's Book Of Fish

Download or read book Gould's Book Of Fish written by Richard Flanagan and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning novel. 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 . . .