Title: More "The Waterboy" than "The Waterman"
Product review: I enjoyed this premise the first time I read it -- as William Werner's "Beautiful Swimmers" (1976). In this malnourished copycat, Junkin milks his "personal experience" as a waterman (really only a summer job 25 years ago) and pads it with overdone prose and underdone plotting and character.
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