Water Music

By: T Coraghessan Boyle

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Paperback | 1 March 1998 | Edition Number 1

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448 Pages

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19.5 x 12.8 x 3.1

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The year is 1795: George III is dabbing the walls of Windsor castle with spittle, Goya is deaf, De Quincey is a depraved pubescent and young Ludwig van Beethoven is wowing them in Vienna with his second piano concerto.

In London, Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, is drinking Strip-Me-Naked with Nan Punt and Sally Sebum at the Pig and Pox Tavern in Maiden Lane. And, far from his native Edinburgh, the explorer Mungo Park is stranded in the Sahara, a prisoner of the Moors of Ludamar.

Water Music is the rambunctious account of two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands to their unlikely meeting in darkest Africa, as they search for the source of the Niger, a river no European has ever laid eyes upon.

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Opening with Mungo Park displaying the whiteness of his buttocks to his Moorish captors, this romp moves from the deserts of Africa through the slums of Georgian London to the parlours of Scotland. The defiantly anachronistic tone of the opening chapter puts the reader in no doubt that here is a yarn. The novel is based around Park's efforts to find the source of the river Niger, but weaves in the tale of Ned Rise, a thief and confidence trickster who struggles to fulfil the promise of his name. Boyle's characteristic concerns of social justice and the force of destiny recur, the boisterous humour fading in tandem with the youthful optimism of the protagonists. Reissue. (Kirkus UK)

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