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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 della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle since 1962.
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Jitterbug Perfume
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1990
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1990
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Still Life with Woodpecker
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1990
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1990
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Skinny Legs and All
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
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 Tom Robbins’s gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative new novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
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 Tom Robbins’s gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative new novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2001
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2001
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $14.00
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins’s shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy to the New York Times. Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays, articles, observations—and even some untypical country-music lyrics—offer a rare overview of the eclectic sensibility of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $14.00
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins’s shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy to the New York Times. Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays, articles, observations—and even some untypical country-music lyrics—offer a rare overview of the eclectic sensibility of... Read more >
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1990
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1990
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Another Roadside Attraction
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1990
Price: $14.00
What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if “the Corpse” on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is—what does that portend for the future f western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 1, 1990
Price: $14.00
What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if “the Corpse” on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is—what does that portend for the future f western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Villa Incognito
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $14.00
Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine them part of a novel that only Tom Robbins could create—a magically crafted work... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $14.00
Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine them part of a novel that only Tom Robbins could create—a magically crafted work... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Siddhartha
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $11.95
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $11.95
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
eBook,
hardcover,
hardcover,
paperback,
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there’s no way you... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1995
Price: $15.00
When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there’s no way you... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Siddhartha
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2006
Price: $16.95
Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book’s debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hesse’s time, synthesizing disparate philosophies–Eastern religions, Jungian... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2006
Price: $16.95
Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the year of the book’s debut, the novel is infused with the sensibilities of Hesse’s time, synthesizing disparate philosophies–Eastern religions, Jungian... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
eBook,
hardcover,
paperback,
paperback,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $29.95
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $29.95
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy... Read more >
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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $19.95
"Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller."
--Thomas Pynchon
In Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, his seventh and biggest novel, the wise, witty, always gutsy Tom Robbins brings onstage the most complex and compelling character he has ever created.
Switters is a contradiction... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $19.95
"Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller."
--Thomas Pynchon
In Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, his seventh and biggest novel, the wise, witty, always gutsy Tom Robbins brings onstage the most complex and compelling character he has ever created.
Switters is a contradiction... Read more >
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Another Roadside Attraction
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $14.00
What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if “the Corpse” on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is—what does that portend for the future f western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $14.00
What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if “the Corpse” on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is—what does that portend for the future f western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.00
When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there’s no way you... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.00
When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there’s no way you... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Jitterbug Perfume
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Skinny Legs and All
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.00
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,... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.00
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,... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Still Life with Woodpecker
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 17, 2003
Price: $15.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Villa Incognito
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $14.00
Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War.
Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.
Imagine just those things (don’t even try to imagine the love... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $14.00
Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War.
Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.
Imagine just those things (don’t even try to imagine the love... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $14.00
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy... Read more >
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $14.00
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy... Read more >
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Villa Incognito
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 29, 2003
Price: $13.95
Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War.
Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.
Imagine just those things (don’t even try to imagine the love... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 29, 2003
Price: $13.95
Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War.
Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.
Imagine just those things (don’t even try to imagine the love... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $14.98
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $14.98
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy... Read more >
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Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $22.50
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... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $22.50
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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