ABOUT THE BOOK

An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations....

It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel spins, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes 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, 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. 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?

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'This is one of those special novels--a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane -that you just want to ride off into the sunset with' - Thomas Pynchon

'... one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world' - The Financial Times

NEWS

April 2001
Earlier this year Tom Robbins took part in an online question and answer session, which raised the question of whether his novel killed Elvis - find out at booksunlimited.co.uk