Water Music (novel)

1981 novel by T. C. Boyle

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Water Music

First edition

Author| T. C. Boyle
Language| English
Publisher| Little Brown

Publication date

| 1981
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (hardcover & paperback)
Pages| 437 pp
ISBN| 0-316-10467-1
OCLC| 7733729

Dewey Decimal

| 813/.54 19
LC Class| PS3552.O932 W3

Water Music is the first novel by T. C. Boyle, published in 1981. It is a semifictional historical fiction adventure set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

## Plot

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The novel follows the parallel adventures and intertwining fates of its protagonists. Ned Rise is a luckless and purely fictional petty criminal traveling with the historically based explorer Mungo Park through various locales in Scotland and England, then on two Imperial British expeditions into Western Africa to explore the Niger River.[1]

Water Music is loosely based on historical sources, including Mungo Park's 1799 book, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa. Its foreword admits that Boyle does not claim historical accuracy nor faithfulness to dubious contemporary accounts.

## Publication

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* Hardcover \- ISBN 0-316-10467-1 (1981, First edition) published by Little Brown
* Paperback \- ISBN 0-14-006550-4 (1983) published by Penguin Books

## References

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1. ^ "Water Music". Penguingroup.com.

## External links

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* T. C. Boyle official website

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T. C. Boyle

Novels|

* Water Music (1981)
* Budding Prospects (1984)
* World's End (1987)
* East Is East (1990)
* The Road to Wellville (1993)
* The Tortilla Curtain (1995)
* Riven Rock (1998)
* A Friend of the Earth (2000)
* Drop City (2003)
* The Inner Circle (2004)
* Talk Talk (2006)
* The Women (2009)
* When the Killing's Done (2011)
* San Miguel (2012)
* The Harder They Come (2015)
* The Terranauts (2016)
* Outside Looking In (2019)
* Talk to Me (2021)

Short story collections|

* Greasy Lake (1985)
* After the Plague (2001)

Film adaptations|

* The Road to Wellville (1994)
* The Lie (2011)

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

Other|

* MusicBrainz work
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