Water Music
Boston; (1981): Little, Brown and Co. First Edition. Octavo. Item #032059
437 pages. The author pictures characters of the 19th century. What makes this important is that it shows the obsessions of the past are revisited by us today. We cannot escape history since it embodies us today. In an interview twenty-five years after writing this classic, he said: "Water Music is about cultural imperialism and that is what the current and ongoing war between the West and Islam is all about." A fine copy bound in 1/4 blue cloth over beige paper covered boards stamped in blind, spine lettering silver in a fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
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