Villa Incognito

Praise

Praise for Tom Robbins and Villa Incognito:

“Perhaps [the] greatest book from Robbins . . . phantasmagorical, richly layered, utterly hilarious, and unexpectedly poignant.”—Pages

“Robbins remains a welcome breath of fresh air in American literature.”—The Globe and Mail

“Robbins, as lyrical a counterculture hero as has ever tuned in and turned on, is to words what Uri Geller is to spoons: He bends sentences into playful escapades. Robbins is as frisky as ever. . . . Bottom line: Another bedside attraction.”—People

“Robbins is an artist at play in the fields of language, a Merlin of the metaphor, and linguistic crown prince . . . his eighth and best . . . is smart and very funny.”—The Tulsa World

“Robbins introduces a wild cast of characters and fashions a story that crackles with wordplay, wit, and political and philosophical digressions—all of which end up being great fun.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Bursts with energy . . . Those who cherish his gift for metaphor, simile, and verbal riffs will revel in their plentitude here.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Robbins’s latest is another wild romp. . . . Robbins’s fans will not be disappointed by this latest book; it contains all his trademarks — the friendly tone, the careering plot lines, the impressively strange characters sprung fresh and vivid from his brain.”—BookPage

“[An] outrageous concoction that is a joy to the imagination . . . In vintage Robbins style, the plot whirls every which way, as the author, writing with unrestrained glee, takes potshots at societal pillars: the military, big business, and religion of all ilks. The language is eccentric, electrifying, and true to the mark. . . . This is a delectable farce, full of tantalizing secrets and bizarre disguises.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Vintage Tom Robbins. It’s all there: the oddball fantasy, social criticism, and bizarre circumstances, marinated in Western dropout culture and Eastern philosophy. . . . [His] playful style tickles and delights . . . the novel cavorts to its own primal rhythm.”—USA Today

“Ebullient, irreverent, hilarious . . . Villa Incognito is Ribald fairy tale meets . . . Apocalypse Now. . . . Robbins’s writing is a romp! . . . It can make you laugh out loud. It has more original metaphors than any ten books of poetry together. The man does have, as they say, a way with words. . . . [Stubblefield’s] pontifications on the soul are wildly figurative and alone worth the price of the book.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Replete with literary allusions as diverse as haiku master Basho, James Michener, and Franz Kafka . . . all of which give Robbins’s prose a poetic quality, unique in contemporary literature.”—The Rocky Mountain News