Putting on the Plum
Christopher Tayler: Richard Flanagan, 31 October 2002
Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
by Richard Flanagan.
Atlantic, 404 pp., £16.99, June 2002,1 84354 021 5 Show More
by Richard Flanagan.
Atlantic, 404 pp., £16.99, June 2002,
“... a dilapidated book. He steals it, reads it, and becomes obsessed. This book is the manuscript of Gould’s Book of Fish, which immediately announces itself as something special. Its binding emits a supernatural glow, and – rather like Borges’s ominous ‘Book of Sand’ – its contents don’t seem to end: ‘each time I opened the Book of Fish what ... ”