Tom Robbins, Author . Bantam $27.50 (256p) ISBN 978-0-553-80332-7
Donald Barthelme once said, "Those who never attempt the absurd never achieve the impossible." Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker; Jitterbug Perfume; etc.) has made a career of attempting and achieving both, and in this, his eighth novel,...
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Tom Robbins, Author . Bantam Dell $25 (257p) ISBN 978-0-553-80451-5
The author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
and Still Life with Woodpecker
has regularly published shorter pieces in Esquire
, Playboy
, the New York Times
and elsewhere. The whimsical, quixotic nature of that work comes through in this hit-and-miss
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Tom Robbins, Author , illus. by Leslie Le Pere. Ecco $17.95 (125p) ISBN 978-0-06-168727-3
In his “children's book for grown-ups”/“grown-up book for children,” Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues)
takes readers on a whimsical tour of all things beer, written in the language of a bedtime story. Factoids about
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Tom Robbins, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-553-07625-7
Robbins (Skinny Legs and All; Even Cowgirls Get the Blues) begins this disappointing novel just before Easter weekend, as commodities broker Gwen Mati-half-Filipina, half-Irish-is in her favorite Seattle bar, mourning the stock market's nosedive. A...
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Tom Robbins, Author Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc $27.5 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-10775-3
Fans of Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume; Still Life with Woodpecker) will be delighted to find that his first book in almost six years contains many of the elements they have come to expect from this imaginative author. Sex, sedition and similes abound...
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Tom Robbins, Author Bantam $15 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553-37787-3
Robbins's latest tells of a Seattle commodities broker whose life is abruptly changed by a wild weekend with a handful of eccentrics. (Dec.)
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Tom Robbins, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05775-1
In a phantasmagorical, politically charged tale you wish would never end, Robbins holds forth--through a variety of ingenious, off-beat mouthpieces--on art (with and without caps), the Middle East, religious fanaticism of many stripes, and the seven
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Tom Robbins. Ecco, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-226740-5
Thomas Pynchon wrote that Tom Robbins’s Even Cowgirls Get the Blues “dazzled his brain,” calling it a “piece of working magic” and Robbins “a world-class storyteller.” Ever the raconteur, Robbins carries us along a magical wonder tour in this high-fl
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Tom Robbins, Author, Thomas Robbins, Editor, Susan Palmer, Editor Routledge $34.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-415-91649-3
As the year 2000 approaches, both popular culture and popular religion have painted pictures of what the end times might look like. Robbins and Palmer have gathered a number of essays that take a sober look at the phenomenon of apocalypticism in the
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