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ISBN: 184243036x
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Price: £9.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 386pp
Rights: UK
Pub. Date: September 2003

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tom Robbins has been called "a vital natural resource" by The Portland Oregonian, "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world" by the FT, and "the most dangerous writer in the world today" by Fernanda Pivano of Italy's Corriere della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle since 1962. He is the author of Villa Incognito, Still Life With Woodpecker, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Even Cowgirls get the Blues and Jitterbug Perfume.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you - an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker - are convinced you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you're going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses. Over these fateful three days, you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot-card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space. This is, after all, a Tom Robbins novel - and the author has never been in finer form.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world..." - Thomas Pynchon, The Financial Times

"...Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller..." - Thomas Pynchon,