Skinny Legs and All

A Novel

Tom Robbins

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English

Bantam
01 January 1996

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A reissue of a favorite from New York Times bestselling author Tom Robbins to coincide with the novella B Is for Beer, to be published by Ecco in February 2009.

A gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author hailed by Financial Times as ""one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world""

""Hilarious.""-Milwaukee Journal ""A euphoric wonderwork.""-Los Angeles Times ""Flat-out fabulous.""-Playboy

An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. . . .

It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it's the axis around which Skinny Legs and All 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, in Tom Robbins's audacious manner, with 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 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?

By: Tom Robbins
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 357g
ISBN: 9780553377880
ISBN 10: 0553377884
Pages: 422
Publication Date: 01 January 1996
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Skinny Legs and All: A Novel

Tom Robbins is a vital national treasure. --The Oregonian Robbins possesses magnet-like power. --USA Today Funny and tough...Robbins is an American Original. --Washington Magazine