Water Music (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here and here.T.C. Boyle’s riotous first novel, now in a new edition for its 25th anniversary Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Music, a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle’s tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the late ei….Read More
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