Gould's Book Of Fish : A Novel in Twelve Fish

Pan Macmillan, UK, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 403 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Macmillan, UK, 2001. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have moderate wear. Dust jacket has superficial rubbing. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. . Pages are lightly tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers Prize-winning novel. Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict 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, condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Once upon a time, there were miracles... 'A work of significant genius' -- Chicago Tribune *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0330363034. ISBN/EAN: 9780330363037. Inventory No: 24010260.. 9780330363037