Water Man (novel)

Water Man is a 1993 novel by Australian novelist Roger McDonald.[1]

Water Man
First edition
AuthorRoger McDonald
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPicador, Australia
Publication date
1993
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages315
ISBN0330273981
Preceded byFlynn 
Followed byThe Slap 

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.

Notes
  • Dedication: When bright things tarnish he will be truly gone. Then you will know him.

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."[2]

Awards and nominations
  • 1994 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
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References
  1. National Library of Australia – Water Man by Roger McDonald
  2. The Canberra Times, "Tapping Deep Waters of the Human Psyche" by Alan Gould, 11 September 1993, p28
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