This is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.
Libro on the road, bibbia di una generazione in bilico tra rivolte e miti, romanzo scoppiettante come il popcorn, pervaso di quell'humour corrosivo e irridente che attraversa tutta la grande letteratura americana, come ha detto lo stesso autore. Sissy, ragazza dotata di enormi e prodigiosi pollici oppone un netto rifiuto all'idea di anormalita che tutti cercano di instillare in lei: genitori, fratelli, compagni di scuola. Ma fuori dalla porta di casa iniziano anche strade che portano lontano, verso il grande sogno americano.
Amanda, bella e giovane chiaroveggente dagli insoliti costumi morali (e materiali) e circondata da amici altrettanto bizzarri. Ben presto la troviamo sposata a John Paul Ziller, artista e mago le cui origini si perdono in qualche modo nella giungla e il cui autentico interesse nella vita e la luce. Salma e poi la vera protagonista: parliamo proprio della Salma di Gesu Cristo. Il suo ritrovamento apre interrogativi sul secondo Avvento e mette a repentaglio il futuro della civilta occidentale. Alle prese con questo mistero e anche Marx Marvellous, lo scienziato dal quale fa capolino lo stesso Robbins. Tutto si svolge in uno strano locale in cui gli automobilisti di passaggio possono ammirare gli ospiti del piccolo zoo.
"Feroci invalidi di ritorno dai paesi caldi" e una spy story dalla trama "flessibile", e un pretesto per l'esibizione di Switters, il protagonista, personaggio complesso e contraddittorio. Switters e un uomo che non avrebbe bisogno di portare una pistola perche e una pistola. Agente segreto in missione speciale, anarchico al soldo del governo, pacifista armato, vegetariano innamorato del prosciutto, mago delle tecnologie che odia i computer, la creatura di Robbins e l'esatto opposto dell'affidabile e cinica figura dello 007 che siamo abituati a immaginare. I suoi viaggi attraverso i quattro continenti, le improvvise fughe amorose, i momenti di pericolo a cui viene esposto sono gli ingredienti principali di questo romanzo.
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage is, as Robert Macfarlane says in his introduction, one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a place that has ever been carried out. That place is one of the most mysterious and oldest inhabited landscapes in the world, the islands of Aran off the west coast of Ireland. Tim Robinsons epic exploration of the desolate, storm-lashed, limestone rocks, which have already haunted generations of Irish writers, takes the form of a clockwise journey around the coast. Every cliff, inlet and headland reveals layers of myth and historical memory, and Robinson makes beautifully crafted observations about the habits of birds, plants and the humans who lived there and endured, leaving records in stone - on the walls, cairns and ancient forts - in story and in oral tradition.
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 this gutsy, fun-loving and alarmingly provocative novel, widely acclaimed as among Robbins's very best. As a dessert spoon mystifies, a waitress takes on the art world and a rowdy redneck discovers the lost god of Palestine, the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one. A defiant and upbeat novel that refuses to look away from the end of the world.
The outrageous bestseller that stars Sissy Hankshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bag. . . . Follow Sissy's amazing odyssey from Virginia to Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax.
What if the Second Coming didn't quite come off as advertised? What if "the Corpse" on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is - what does that portend for the future of western civilisation? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda re-establishes the flea circus as popular entertainment and fertility worshi as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and more. It tells us what the '60s were really all about, not by reporting the psychadelic age, but by recreating it.
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.
