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Codename Iago: The Story of John Friedrichby Richard Flanagan , John FriedrichISBN 0855614528 (0-85561-452-8)
Hardcover, W. Heinemann Australia
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Death of a River Guideby Richard FlanaganISBN 0140257853 (0-14-025785-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a River Guide'Book summary:In this brilliant, labyrinthine second novel, a drowning man named Aljaz Cosini is granted visions of his family history stretching into the distant past--even as he revisits his final days along the remote and treacherous Franklin River. Richard Flanagan's protagonist has been away from Tasmania for the last decade. Sick, lonely, and financially strapped, he returns to his hometown and soon runs into an old colleague known as Pig's Breath, who offers him a low-paying stint as a river guide:
I can see that Pig's Breath knows Aljaz well enough to see that Aljaz desperately wants to visit the Franklin River country, that there is a need in him, which Pig's Breath does not have, to go back there, and that this is his only way of doing it. And while Aljaz sits there trying to look as if he is chewing over numbers, Pig's Breath can tell that what he is in fact doing is smelling the river, hearing it run, watching the rain mists rise from its valleys, drinking its tea-coloured waters from his cupped hands.
Flanagan (The Sound of One Hand Clapping) has been compared to Faulkner for his loving attention to place, but his narrative talents are more akin to those of Günter Grass. There are echoes of The Tin Drum in the picaresque tale of Aljaz's emergence from the womb, wrapped in the caul that suggests second sight. Throughout, a series of similarly magical occurrences lends sparkle, if little illumination, to these hardscrabble lives in the Tasmanian wilderness. All of which goes to explain why Death of a River Guide is an unusually rich novel, and one of Australia's most distinguished literary exports in recent years. --Regina Marler [via]More editions of Death of a River Guide:
- Death of a River Guide: ISBN 0330364758 (0-330-36475-8)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited - Death of a River Guide: ISBN 0802138632 (0-8021-3863-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr - Death of a River Guide: ISBN 0330352822 (0-330-35282-2)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan - Death of a River Guide: ISBN 0802116825 (0-8021-1682-5)
Hardcover, Grove Pr - Death of a River Guide: ISBN 0869143441 (0-86914-344-1)
Hardcover, McPhee Gribble - Death of a River Guide: ISBN 0140257853 (0-14-025785-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
- Death of a River Guide: ISBN 0330364758 (0-330-36475-8)
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Gould's Book of Fishby Richard FlanaganISBN 0802139590 (0-8021-3959-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gould's Book of Fish'Book summary:Gould's Book of Fish, an extraordinary work of fact-based fiction by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan (Death of a River Guide) is a journey through the fringe madness of Down Under colonialism. Set during the 1830s in a hellish island prison colony off the Tasmanian coast, the novel plucks a real-life thief and prisoner, English forger William Buelow Gould, from the pages of history to act as protagonist-narrator. Through Gould's unique capacity to blend hyperbole, hyperrealism, and self-effacing honesty, the reader acquires a shockingly clear picture of daily torment on the island. Yet more remarkable is Gould's portrait of bizarre ambitions among prison authorities to further principles of art and science amidst so much misery. Key to such plans is Gould's talent as a painter and illustrator. The compound's surgeon, nursing hopes of publishing a definitive guide to the island's fish, leans heavily on Gould's ability to record the taxonomy of various species. Though Gould accommodates his masters, the manuscript, in his hands, becomes testimony to their perverse dreams of civilization and his own quick-witted survival instincts. Throughout, Flanagan never loses the well-imagined voice of Gould's candor or the character's dense descriptive powers, talents that translate into a thrilling text that reads like a blend of Melville and Burgess. --Tom Keogh [via]
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Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fishby Richard FlanaganISBN 0330363786 (0-330-36378-6)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
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The Hunting Varietyby Richard FlanaganISBN 0399112189 (0-399-11218-9)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Parish Fed Bastards : A History of the Politics of the Unemployed in Britain, 1884-1939by Richard FlanaganISBN 0313274398 (0-313-27439-8)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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The Rest of the World Is Watchingby Cassandra Pybus, Richard FlanaganISBN 0725106514 (0-7251-0651-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
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The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Learning And Development into Business Resultsby Cassandra Pybus, Richard FlanaganISBN 0787982547 (0-7879-8254-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Sound of One Hand Clappingby Richard FlanaganISBN 033035292X (0-330-35292-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound of One Hand Clapping'Book summary:A sweeping novel of world war, migration, and the search for new beginnings in a new land, The Sound of One Hand Clapping was both critically acclaimed and a best-seller in Australia. It is a virtuoso performance from an Australian who is emerging as one of our most talented new storytellers. It was 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, where Bojan Buloh had brought his family to start a new life away from Slovenia, the privations of war, and refugee settlements. One night, Bojan's wife walked off into a blizzard, never to return -- leaving Bojan to drink too much to quiet his ghosts, and to care for his three-year-old daughter Sonja alone. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to Tasmania and a father haunted by memories of the European war and other, more recent horrors. As the shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present, Sonja's empty life and her father's living death are to change forever. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is about the barbarism of an old world left behind, about the harshness of a new country, and the destiny of those in a land beyond hope who seek to redeem themselves through love.[via]More editions of The Sound of One Hand Clapping:
- The Sound of One Hand Clapping: ISBN 0330360426 (0-330-36042-6)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited - The Sound of One Hand Clapping: ISBN 0802137849 (0-8021-3784-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr - The Sound of One Hand Clapping: ISBN 0330352911 (0-330-35291-1)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan - The Sound of One Hand Clapping: ISBN 0330362399 (0-330-36239-9)
Hardcover, Picador - The Sound of One Hand Clapping: ISBN 0732908965 (0-7329-0896-5)
Hardcover, Macmillan - The Sound of One Hand Clapping: ISBN 033035292X (0-330-35292-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
- The Sound of One Hand Clapping: ISBN 0330360426 (0-330-36042-6)
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Terrible Beauty: History of the Gordon River Countryby Richard FlanaganISBN 0864360010 (0-86436-001-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group Australia
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The Unknown Terroristby Richard FlanaganISBN 0330422804 (0-330-42280-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
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- The Unknown Terrorist: ISBN 033042355X (0-330-42355-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited - The Unknown Terrorist: ISBN 0802143547 (0-8021-4354-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr - The Unknown Terrorist: ISBN 0002000180 (0-00-200018-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - The Unknown Terrorist: ISBN 0330422774 (0-330-42277-4)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited - The Unknown Terrorist: ISBN 0802118518 (0-8021-1851-8)
Hardcover, Grove Pr - The Unknown Terrorist: ISBN 0330422804 (0-330-42280-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
- The Unknown Terrorist: ISBN 033042355X (0-330-42355-X)
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