Water Music
of T. Coraghessan Boyle (Goodreads Author), James R. Kincaid (Goodreads Author) (contributor)
Description
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here and here.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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 437 pages
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Publication Date 2006
- First Publication 10/28/81
- Language English
- ISBN 9780140065503
- Edition 25th Anniversary Edition
- Category Fiction
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