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Two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands. The story is set in 1795, whilst the rest of Europe is in turmoil - Goya is deaf, De Quincy is a depraved prepubescent and the young Ludwig von Beethoven is wowing them in Vienna with his second piano concerto.
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"Ribald, hilarious, exotic—an engrossing flight of the literary imagination."
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"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."
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"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."
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—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
T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.
James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English at the University of Southern California, is a widely recognized authority on Victorian literature and culture.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0586057609
- ISBN 13 9780586057605
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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