Skinny legs and all by Tom Robbins. Publication date Publisher Bantam Books Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; china Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate Boxid IA Boxid_2 CH Camera. SKINNY LEGS AND ALL. by Tom Robbins ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, Imagine Robert Ludlum hallucinating at his word-processor while weaving a plot combining postmodern art, Middle Eastern terrorism, and a talking vibrator, and you come close to what Robbins has accomplished here. Robbins' considerable audience has waited six years (since Jitterbug Perfume, ) to read sentences like . Clever For the Sake of Cleverness () Robbins, Tom (). Skinny Legs and All. New York: Bantam. This novel is about Tom Robbins, who wants to show you how clever, funny, and sophisticated he is. With respect to that goal, the book succeeds. However, does he create and motivate interesting characters? No. Does he develop an interesting story? No.
Skinny Legs All is Tom Robbins' take on Middle Eastern politics and the frenzy of the millenium, seen through the eyes of a silver dessert spoon, a can of pork-n-beans, a dirty sock, a sacred conch shell and a centuries-old painted stick. At least partly. Robbins spends the rest of the novel mocking the New York City art scene, expounding his theories on Goddess religion and Biblical lore. Skinny Legs and All Summary. Part history lesson, part social satire, and part self-help book, Tom Robbins's Skinny Legs and All takes the reader on a wild, humorous, and enlightening ride. The story begins with a couple of newlyweds taking a ride in a "turkey." From that point, it is clear that Robbins's work isn't your standard novel. Tom Robbins re-reads #1: Skinny Legs and All. Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins. Janu by zinka 4 Comments. I discovered Tom Robbins on my mom's bookshelf when I was in High School. A fan herself, she had an assortment of his novels and I devoured, quickly, Even Cowgirls get the Blues followed by the rest of her collection.
Skinny Legs and All, Robbins's most political novel, is also his most controversial, dealing as it does--in Robins's audacious manner--with the most sensitive issues of the day: race, politics marriage, art, religion, money and lust. 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. SKINNY LEGS AND ALL. by Tom Robbins ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, Imagine Robert Ludlum hallucinating at his word-processor while weaving a plot combining postmodern art, Middle Eastern terrorism, and a talking vibrator, and you come close to what Robbins has accomplished here. Robbins' considerable audience has waited six years (since Jitterbug Perfume, ) to read sentences like this: "As soon as she had replaced the vibrator in her underwear drawer, the panties ceased their girlish.
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