Even cowgirls get the blues, Robbins, Tom

Автор: Tom Robbins
Название: Jitterbug perfume
ISBN: 0553348981 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553348989
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Jitterbug Perfume
is an epic.
Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn t conclude until nine o clock tonight (Paris time).
It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle.
The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god.
If the liquid in the bottle actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left."

Автор: Tom Robbins
Название: Fierce invalids home from hot
ISBN: 055337933X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553379334
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn t merely pack a pistol. He "is" a pistol. And as we dog Switters s strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the true Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer at the top of his game. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it s a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life."

Автор: Tom Robbins
Название: Even cowgirls get the blues
ISBN: 055334949X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553349498
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "This is one of those special novels--a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane."--Thomas Pynchon

The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all "bursting with dimples and hormones"--and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all.

Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins's classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind.

Автор: Tom Robbins
Название: Still life with woodpecker
ISBN: 0553348973 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553348972
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "Robbins's comic philosophical musings reveal a flamboyant genius."--People

Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.

Автор: Robbins, Tom
Название: Still life with woodpecker
ISBN: 184243022X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781842430224
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: Still Life with Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes....

Автор: Tom Robbins
Название: Skinny legs and all
ISBN: 0553377884 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553377880
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: 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?

Автор: Tom Robbins
Название: Half asleep in frog pajamas
ISBN: 0553377876 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553377873
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Robbins, Tom
Название: Fierce invalids home from hot climates
ISBN: 1842430289 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781842430286
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Цена: 17940.00 T
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Описание: Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government, a pacifist who carries a gun, a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy. Yet there is nothing limp about Switters. He doesn`t merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. As we follow Switters across four continents Robbins explores, challenges and celebrates...

Автор: Robbins, Tom
Название: Skinny legs and all
ISBN: 1842430343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781842430347
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Цена: 17940.00 T
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Описание: 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 this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel spins, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art...

Автор: Robbins, Tom
Название: Jitterbug perfume
ISBN: 1842430351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781842430354
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Описание: Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn`t conclude until nine o`clock tonight [Paris time]....

Автор: Robbins, Tom
Название: B is for beer
ISBN: 1842433350 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781842433355
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Цена: 13720.00 T
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Описание: Have you ever wondered why your daddy likes beer so much? Have you wondered, before you fall asleep at night, why he sometimes acts kind of "funny" after he`s been drinking beer? Maybe you`ve even wondered where beer comes from, because you`re pretty sure it isn`t from a cow. Well, Gracie Perkel wondered those same things....

Автор: Robbins, Tom
Название: Stones of Aran
ISBN: 0571241042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571241040
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 13190.00 T
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Описание: Every cliff, inlet and headland reveals layers of myth and historical memory, and Robinson makes beautifully crafted observations about the habits of birds, plants and the humans who lived there and endured, leaving records in stone - on the walls, cairns and ancient forts - in story and in oral tradition.