Tom Robbins
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels -- including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates -- provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, pulsating with strong social and philosophical undercurrents, his irreverent classics have introduced countless readers to natural born hitchhiking cowgirls, born-again monkeys, a philosophizing can of beans,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Follows the adventures of Priscilla, a genius waitress, Madame Devalier, the Queen of Good Smells, cousins Claude and Marcel LeFever, and various other characters as they attempt to master time and space in order to find a perfume which they believe holds the secret to eternal life.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1980
Physical Desc
x, 277 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Come on in to Captain Kendrick's Memorial Hot Dog Wildlife Preserve (a roadside attraction only bestselling Tom Robbins could invent)--things are going to get outrageous! Published to coincide with Robbins' new release, Skinny Legs and All.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003, c2000
Physical Desc
445 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young CIA agent Switters, hindered by a shaman's curse that keeps him from allowing his feet to touch earth, continues his adventures around the world in a wheelchair and on stilts, lusting after his teenage stepsister, consorting with nuns and rebels, and challenging the Vatican.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all "bursting with dimples and hormones"--and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all. Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins's classic...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003, c1990
Physical Desc
422 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 spins Tom Robbins's gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, 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...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cowgirls on the Rubber Rose Ranch stage a rebellion. Delores Del Ruby leads the uprising, but Sissy Hankshaw provides the spiritual leadership for the ragtag bunch of female bandits.