Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"Ribald, hilarious, exotic an engrossing flight of the literary imagination." Los Angeles Times
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"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
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"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
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"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
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
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.
About the Author
T. C. Boyle is the
New York Times bestselling author of ten novels and has published seven collections of short fiction. He received the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel
World's End and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. His stories appear regularly in the
New Yorker,
GQ,
Esquire, and
Playboy.
Visit his Web site at www.tcboyle.com.