TC Boyle

Ted Samsel tejas at infi.net
Tue May 13 06:13:29 CDT 1997


RobVeg sez:
> 
> 	I have read _Water Music_ and it is a great novel.  It 
> shows, though, that he is probably abetter short story writer.  It
> is one of those anti-historical novels, if I understand the word
> correctly.  It has been applied to _Mason & Dixon_.  The story is
> of Mungo Park, "The First White Man To See The Niger."
> 	It is very funny.

As is his second or third novel, "BUDDING PROSPECTS" which meshes
nicely with VINELAND. (A buncha guys go into "farming" in NorCal.)

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net




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