Water Music
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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 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.
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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
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