T. Coraghessan Boyle: Water Music, First Edition
An Atlantic Monthly Press
Little, Brown and Company
Boston
1980, 1981
First Edition
Hardcover in very good condition, with former owner inscription. In very good jacket.
“At an age when most young Scotsmen were lifting skirts, plowing furrows, and spreading seed, Mungo Park was displaying his bare buttocks to al-haj’ Ali Ibn Fatoudi, Emir of Ludamar…George III was dabbing the walls of Windsor Castle with his own spittle, the Notables were botching things in France, Goya was deaf, DeQuincey a depraved preadolescent. George Bryan ‘Beau’ Brummell was smoothing down his first starched collar, young Ludwig van Beethoven, beetlebrowed and twenty-four, was wowing them in Vienna with his Piano Concerto no. 2, and Ned Rise was drinking Strip-Me-Naked with Nan Punt and Sally Sebum at the Pig & Pox Tavern in Maiden Lane.”
Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, explorer, through London’s seamy gutters and Scotland’s scenic highlands–to their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa.
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$64.95
Little, Brown and Company
Boston
1980, 1981
First Edition
Hardcover in very good condition, with former owner inscription. In very good jacket.
“At an age when most young Scotsmen were lifting skirts, plowing furrows, and spreading seed, Mungo Park was displaying his bare buttocks to al-haj’ Ali Ibn Fatoudi, Emir of Ludamar…George III was dabbing the walls of Windsor Castle with his own spittle, the Notables were botching things in France, Goya was deaf, DeQuincey a depraved preadolescent. George Bryan ‘Beau’ Brummell was smoothing down his first starched collar, young Ludwig van Beethoven, beetlebrowed and twenty-four, was wowing them in Vienna with his Piano Concerto no. 2, and Ned Rise was drinking Strip-Me-Naked with Nan Punt and Sally Sebum at the Pig & Pox Tavern in Maiden Lane.”
Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, explorer, through London’s seamy gutters and Scotland’s scenic highlands–to their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa.
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