Water Music: A Novel: Amazon.ca: T. Coraghessan Boyle: Books

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"Ribald, hilarious, exotic—an engrossing flight of the literary imagination." —Los Angeles Times

"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

"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

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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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.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars His Best Work!, Jan 31 2004

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Donald Merriam (Tonopah, NV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Water Music (Paperback)

While I've enjoyed all of the Boyle novels I've read, this one is a real gem. Fans of T.C. Boyle know he loves to juxtapose the clash of cultures between characters from radically different backgrounds in most of his work, but nowhere does he do it better than in this work. This is how Dickens would have written had he been into psychodelic mushrooms. You'll have to put this book down several times just to bring your laughing under control. The dialog with the drunk who brags about hitting the pub owner on the pillory with six rotten turnips and a dead cat is worth the read alone and put me right on the floor in hysterics.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Water Music, Jan 22 2003

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J.A.B. (Roanoke, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Water Music (Paperback)

This novel is still T. Coraghessan Boyle's triumph! Read it and be stunned..

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5.0 out of 5 stars stunning, Jun 25 2002