Water MusicT.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 Musicfollows 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. BACKCOVER: ;Ribald, hilarious, exotic ;an engrossing flight of the literary imagination. ; ;Los Angeles Times ; Water Musicdoes for fiction what Raiders of the Lost Arkdid for film. . . . Boyle is an adept plotter, a crazed humorist, and a fierce describer. ; ;The Boston Globe ;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 |
