Ebook {Epub PDF} Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins

Part history lesson, part social satire, and part self-help book, Tom Robbins's Skinny Legs and All takes the reader on a wild, humorous, and enlightening ride. The story begins with a couple of newlyweds taking a ride in a "turkey." From that point, it is clear that Robbins's work isn't your standard novel. Skinny Legs and All. Skinny Legs and All, novelist Tom Robbins 's fifth book, was published in by Bantam Books. As with all of Robbins's novels, it weaves disparate and seemingly unrelated themes into a single narrative. SKINNY LEGS AND ALL. by Tom Robbins ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, Imagine Robert Ludlum hallucinating at his word-processor while weaving a plot combining postmodern art, Middle Eastern terrorism, and a talking vibrator, and you come close to what Robbins has accomplished here. Robbins' considerable audience has waited six years (since Jitterbug Perfume, ) to read sentences like .

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To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.”. ― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All. tags: philosophy-of-life. Part history lesson, part social satire, and part self-help book, Tom Robbins's Skinny Legs and All takes the reader on a wild, humorous, and enlightening ride. The story begins with a couple of newlyweds taking a ride in a "turkey." From that point, it is clear that Robbins's work isn't your standard novel. Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood.