Gould’s Book of Fish (Magill’s Literary Annual 2003)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Flanagan
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The present and the nineteenth century
- Setting: Tasmania
- Principal Characters: Sid Hammet, William Buelow Gould, Commandant, Tobias Achilles Lempriere, Twopenny Sal, Tom Brady, Capois Death
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: Prisoners, Prisons, Crime or criminals, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Twenty-first century, Islands, Death or dying, Painting or painters, Captivity, Torture, Fishing or fishermen, Forgery or forging, Australia or Australians, Fishes, Marine animals
- Locales: Tasmania
Nobody can accuse Richard Flanagan of resting on his laurels after his well-received debut novel The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1999) and its follow-up, Death of a River Guide (2001). Certainly no one can accuse him of retelling, as some authors do, the same basic story again and again in different guises. Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish is about as different a book as it is possible to imagine in comparison to his previous two works—and for that matter, in comparison to its fiction competitors of this publishing season, as well. Reviewer Caroline...
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