{"product_id":"goulds-book-of-fish-pb","title":"Gould's Book of Fish PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Commonwealth Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Notable Fiction 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Best Fiction of 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Best of the Best 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Raves 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Favorite Books of 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Best Books 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Best Books of 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Year’s Best Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Standout Books of 2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. He fell in love with the black mistress of the warder and discovered too late that to love is not safe; he attempted to keep a record of the strange reality he saw in prison, only to realize that history is not written by those who are ruled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcclaimed as a masterpiece around the world, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGould’s Book of Fish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is at once a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia and a contemporary fable, a tale of horror, and a celebration of love, all transformed by a convict painter into pictures of fish.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52452058923239,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/41LqywMMYYL.webp?v=1785873497","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/goulds-book-of-fish-pb","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}