Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish by Richard Flanagan (Grove Press, Hardcover)

From Richard Flanagan, later winner of the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, comes this extravagantly imagined epic of 19th-century Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). William Buelow Gould, a forger and thief sentenced to the brutal penal colony at Sarah Island, is set to work by the prison surgeon painting an illustrated catalogue of the local fish. Through those twelve fish he records his own story and the bloody, absurd history of the colony, a world of convicts and colonists, lovers and tyrants. Darkly comic, inventive and fiercely humane, it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was named a New York Times Notable Book. Illustrated with colour plates of Gould's fish paintings. 404 pages.

Condition: Hardcover with dust jacket. Used, in like-new condition.