Language English Publication date 1993 Pages 315 Originally published 1993 Page count 315 Country Australia | Publisher Picador, Australia Media type Print (Paperback) Preceded by Flynn ISBN 0330273981 | |
Similar Mediarena: Contemporary Art from J, Barry Humphries' Flashbacks, Australias Flying Doctors, Shearers' motel, The tree in changing light | ||
Water Man is a 1993 novel by Australian novelist Roger McDonald.
Contents
Plot summary
The "water man" of the book's title is a water diviner - or rather two water diviners: one working on an Australian station in 1939 and the other working the same property 50 years later. Events surrounding the first divining echo down the years to the second, when tensions left unresolved re-emerge and engulf a new set of characters.
Reviews
Reviewing the novel in The Canberra Times Alan Gould noted: "Perhaps the most persistent theme in McDonald's work is that of the personality unfamiliar with itself; able to scrutinise nature and fellow human beings with great, and often lyrical particularity, but never quite at ease with either, never quite self-possessed. With its gentle use of fable, with its unobtrusive underpinnings in Jungian psychology, Water Man provides an intriguing, readable, progress to that theme."