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.
“Superb.”—New York Post
“As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time .
. . The plot is sustained by [Robbins's] usual virtuoso writing and
brilliant flashes of insight. . . . Robbins takes readers on a
wild, delightful ride. . . . A delight from beginning to
end.”—Buffalo News
“Dangerous? Wicked? Forbidden? You bet. . . . Pour yourself a bowl
of chips and dig in.”—Daily News, New York
“Robbins is a great writer . . . and definitely a provocative
rascal.”—The Tennessean
“Whoever said truth is stranger than fiction never read a Tom
Robbins novel. . . Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off
impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals.”—San Diego
Union-Tribune
A witch doctor with a pyramid-shaped head, an aged parrot whose only words are "People of zee wurl, relax," and an isolated band of nuns that possesses the last remaining copy of the Virgin of Fatima's mysterious third prophecy all figure into Robbins's latest seriocomic foray. Wheelchair-bound Switters, the "fierce invalid" of the title, is a wisecracking CIA operative and James Joyce aficionado. While in South America meeting a new recruit, he journeys to the Amazon, where a witchdoctor places a bizarre curse on him: he will die immediately if his feet ever touch the ground. Switters takes on a mission to the Middle East for a renegade ex-agent. Sidetracked in the Syrian Desert, he forms an unlikely alliance with the nuns as they battle the Vatican for ownership of the prophecy. Best-selling author Robbins (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues) balances the comic and the cosmic much as a juggler might balance a kitchen chair on a spoon. Highly recommended. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/00.]DLawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, Andover, MA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
"Superb."-New York Post
"As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time .
. . The plot is sustained by [Robbins's] usual virtuoso writing and
brilliant flashes of insight. . . . Robbins takes readers on a
wild, delightful ride. . . . A delight from beginning to
end."-Buffalo News
"Dangerous? Wicked? Forbidden? You bet. . . . Pour yourself a bowl
of chips and dig in."-Daily News, New York
"Robbins is a great writer . . . and definitely a provocative
rascal."-The Tennessean
"Whoever said truth is stranger than fiction never read a Tom
Robbins novel. . . Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off
impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals."-San
Diego Union-Tribune
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