Gould's book of fish

By Richard Flanagan

Subjects: Prisoners as artists, Biographical fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Prisoners, Fishes in art, Historical fiction, Painters, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Artists, fiction, Marine animals in art, Penal colonies, Australia, fiction

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.