This is the first book-length study of the work of the popular novelist Tom Robbins.
Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tell us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out.
In Tibetan Peach Pie, Robbins turns that unparalleled literary sensibility inward, stitching together stories of his unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his globetrotting adventures —told in his unique voice that ...
Entitled Christian Wives: The Women Behind the Evangelists, it was written by James Schaffer and Colleen Todd. He didn't know why he checked out the blamed thing, let alone why he was reading it. When he read that Tammy Faye Bakker, ...
Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins’s classic tale of eccentric adventure.
On one level, this is a book about identity, masquerade and disguise--about “the false mustache of the world”--but neither the mists of Laos nor the smog of Bangkok, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither ...
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic.
This is, after all, a Tom Robbins novel—and the author has never been in finer form.
Also paints a humorous portrait of contemporary society. "Still Life with Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes.
“Robbins’s comic philosophical musings reveal a flamboyant genius.”—People Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes.
On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it’s a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy ...