by RichardFlanagan (Author)
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....
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 404
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 20 Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 1843541467
ISBN 13: 9781843541462
Book Overview: Winner of the APA Publishing Project of the Year Award in 2002. Winner of the APA Design Awards: Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Best Designed Book of the Year in 2002.