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ISBN: 1842430343
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Price: £9.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 422pp
Rights: UK
Pub. Date: March 2002

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

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

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

"...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,