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Robbins, Tom Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Bantam November 1, 198 0-553-26611-X / 9780553266115 Paperback Good
Free-spirited hitchhiker Sissy Henshaw makes her way across the confused a nd paranoid America of the 1970s, gathering knowledge and experience, frie nds and lovers, and all sorts of unusual acquaintances.
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Robbins, Tom Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Bantam May 29, 2001 0-553-37933-X / 9780553379334 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: The fierce invalid in Tom Robbins's seventh novel is a philosophical, hedon istic U.S. operative very loosely inspired by a friend of the author. "Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll are enormously popular in the CIA," claims Switte rs. "Not with all the agents in the field, but with the good ones, the brig htest and the best." Switters isn't really an invalid, but during his first mission (to set free his ornery grandma's parrot, Sailor, in the Amazon ju ngle), he gets zapped by a spell cast by a "misshapen shaman" of the Kandak andero tribe named End of Time. The shaman is reminiscent of Carlos Castane da's giggly guru, but his head is pyramid-shaped. In return for a mind-bend ing trip into cosmic truth--"the Hallways of Always"--Switters must not let his foot touch the earth, or he'll die. Not that a little death threat can slow him down. Switters simply hops into a wheelchair and rolls off to further footloose adventures, occasionally switching to stilts. For a Robbins hero, to be just a bit high, not earthbound, facilitates enlightenment. He bops from Peru to Seattle, where he's beguiled by the Art Girls of the Pike Place Market and his 16-year-old stepsister, and then off to Syria, where he falls in with a pack of renegade nuns bearing names like Mustang Sally and Domino Thirry. Will Switters see Domino tumble and solve the mystery of the Virgin Mary? Can the nuns convince the Pope to favor birth control--to "zonk the zygotic zillions and mitigate the multitudinous milt" and "wrest free from a woman's shoulders the boa of spermatozoa?" Can the author ever resist a shameless pun or
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Robbins, Tom Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Bantam Dell Pub Group June 2000 0-553-84003-7 / 9780553840032 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Robbins offers a wild and wacky trip featuring, among other things, a stock market crash and various philosophies about meaning and the origins of cultures. Gwen, an endangered stockbroker, is involved with strait-laced Belford and his born-again monkey. When she is attracted to Larry-who has cancer and is currently between trips to Timbuktu-she must choose among the American dream, the Timbuktu alternate, and something else. The book is a whirlwind of mad incidents, semiprofound observations, and an endless supply of great lines.
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Robbins, Tom Skinny Legs and I
Bantam Books 1991 0-553-28969-1 / 9780553289695 Paperback Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the Uni ted Nations.... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around wh ich spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in whic h a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress tak es on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils. Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politic s, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through w hat some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze fro m the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat. In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel?
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Robbins, Tom Still Life with Woodpecker
Bantam April 1, 1990 0-553-34897-3 / 9780553348972 Paperback Good
Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place insid e a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of conte mporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.
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