Water Music

T.C. Boyleas riotous first novelanow in a new edition for its 25th anniversary Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, "Water Music"aa funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyleas 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 Londonas seamy gutters and Scotlandas scenic highlandsato 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: aRibald, hilarious, exoticaan engrossing flight of the literary imagination.a "aLos Angeles Times" a"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.a "aThe Boston Globe" aHigh 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.a "aThe Washington Post"