Book 2018

Gould's Book of Fish

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Publisher: Penguin Random House
Language: English
Published: 2018

Fiction
Marine animals in art
Prisoners as artists
Penal colonies
Fishes in art
Prisoners
Painters
Biographical fiction

The most remarkable novel yet from the internationally acclaimed author of Death of a River Guide and The Sound of One Hand Clapping, this is a marvelous historical epic of 19th century Australia, a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites, whose bloody history is recorded in a very unusual taxonomy of fish.