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More copies of this ISBN:Other titles in the Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series series:Water Music: A Novelby T. C. Boyle
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:T. C. Boyle's riotous first novel — now in a new edition for its 25th anniversary.
Twenty five years ago, T. C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Music — a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle's tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, through London's seamy gutters and Scotland's scenic highlands — to their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa. There they join forces and wend their hilarious way to the source of the Niger. Review:"Ribald, hilarious, exotic — an engrossing flight of the literary imagination." Los Angeles Times Review:"Water Music does for fiction what Raiders of the Lost Ark did for film....Boyle is an adept plotter, a crazed humorist, and a fierce describer." The Boston Globe Review:"Water Music, while self-consciously honoring certain codes and manners of the past, goes out of its way to keep us aware that we are reading a work of our own times." New York Times Review:"High comic fiction....Boyle is a writer of considerable talent. He pulls off his most implausible inventions with wit, a perfect sense of timing, and his considerable linguistic gifts." The Washington Post Synopsis:Funny, bawdy, full of T. C. Boyle's inimitable flights of imaginative and stylistic fancy, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, explorer, through London's seamy gutters and Scotland's scenic Highlands — to their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa. There they join forces and wend their hilarious way to the source of the Niger. Synopsis:Thief and whoremaster Ned Rise and explorer Mungo Park join forces in the dark heart of deepest Africa to find the source of the Niger River.
About the AuthorJames R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English at the University of Southern California, is a widely recognized authority on Victorian literature and culture. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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