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Skinny Legs and All

A Novel

A Novel

By Tom Robbins

By Tom Robbins

By Tom Robbins

By Tom Robbins

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Paperback $17.00

Nov 01, 1995 | ISBN 9780553377880

Ebook $11.99

Jun 17, 2003 | ISBN 9780553897937

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    About Skinny Legs and All

    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, 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 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?

    About Skinny Legs and All

    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, 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 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?

    Read An Excerpt

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    About Tom Robbins

    Tom Robbins has been called “a vital natural resource” by the Oregonian, “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world” by the Financial Times of London, and “the most dangerous writer in the world today” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere… More about Tom Robbins

    About Tom Robbins

    Tom Robbins has been called “a vital natural resource” by the Oregonian, “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world” by the Financial Times of London, and “the most dangerous writer in the world today” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere… More about Tom Robbins

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Bantam
    Nov 01, 1995 | 432 Pages | 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780553377880

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Bantam
    Jun 17, 2003 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9780553897937

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    “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

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