Publication

2002-12-26 - Grove Press

Language

English

Word Count

101,000 words, Guess

Page Count

404 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivegouldsbookoffish00rich
  • ISBN-100802139590
  • ISBN-139780802139597
  • Goodreads545187
  • Better World BooksP7-DFY-369
and 4 more
  • Better World Books9780802139597
  • Better World BooksP7-ENO-260
  • Better World Books056-BAC-884
  • Open LibraryOL7874952M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR9619.3.F525 G68 2001

Description

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.

First Sentence

a normal crush of anxieties waiting to return to a normal confinement, and where no-one ever dreamt what it was like to be a seashore, abnormal things like becoming a fish wouldn't happen to you. I say perhaps, but frankly I am not sure.

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Other Editions

  • Gould's Book of FishPaperbackGrove Press2002-12-26
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