Skinny Legs and All, Paperback

Descriere

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 new 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 humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils. Skinny Legs and All deals, in Robbins's audacious manner, 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?

Despre autor

Tom Robbins

scriitor american · 1932–2025

Thomas Eugene Robbins a fost un romancier american. Cele mai notabile opere ale sale sunt „seriocomedii”. Romanul său din 1976, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, a fost adaptat în filmul din 1993 regizat de Gus Van Sant. Ultima sa lucrare, publicată în 2014, a fost Tibetan Peach Pie, o „un-memoar” declarată ca atare. Din 1970, Robbins a locuit în La Conner, Washington, unde a scris nouă dintre cărțile sale.