wef (04/05/83)
I recently read "Water Music" by T.C. Boyle, and recommend it highly for those of you who enjoyed the Fielding-esque novels of John Barth. Briefly, the novel is about the late 18th century "discovery" of the source of the Niger. The hero, an ugly Englishman if ever there was one, stumbles through two "explorations" of Northwest Africa in an attempt to find a way for British exploitation of the river, thoroughly alienating natives of every creed, religion, and conviction in the process. This is a wonderfully amusing and well-written novel. T.C. Boyle has written at least one other book. I am searching for it now. It has to be good. Bill Fuller