FIERCE INVALIDS HOME FROM HOT CLIMATES
“Robbins proves again that he can tell a wicked tale . . . [He] has created a spokesman for a world order where the enlightened individual once again reigns. At least individuals who can handle it.”
“Like any Robbins tale, it’s deceptively funny yet dead serious in its confrontation with Big Issues: the nature of God and Satan; the hypocrisy of organized religions; the insidious evils of government, big business, and advertising; liberalism vs. conservatism; the condition of humanity in an inhumane world.” —
“For fans of Robbins’s nonlinear playfulness, this story of a CIA agent hooked on sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll offers plenty of abandon and unexpected rewards.”
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“[Robbins] takes us on his typical rowdy and irreverent ride, surprising us both with the story he tells and with the way he tells it . . . may be Robbins’s best work to date.” —
“Robbins is still the Houdini of unchained similes and metaphors.” —
“Ingenious . . . Tom Robbins writes operas chock full of mind-altering images and calls them novels . . . Fans like him for going all-out cosmic, for twisting what seem like unlikely words into brilliant Mobius strips of humor and beauty.” —
“[Robbins] has written a new novel that pops like a dogwood in springtime . . . it will do everything to delight those who realize they need a jolt from his cosmic jumper cables every so often.”—
“The father (in this century) of all nose-thumbers . . . [Robbins] is also the inspiration for disreputable treaders of the line between thriller and literature.” —
“Robbins balances the comic and the cosmic much as a juggler might balance a kitchen chair on a spoon. Highly recommended.” —
“[Robbins] brews another deranged and delightful concoction about a man who does it all for God, country, and the love of women.” —
“Philosophical screwball comedy.” —
“Full of little wisdoms,
“One of the most inventive writers on the planet.”
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“An incredibly humorous and completely outlandish romp . . . The high jinks couldn’t be any wilder.” —
“No one writes like Robbins . . . When you look closely at his work, there are virtually no throwaway lines—they seem crafted.” —Tracy Johnson, Salon.com
“Everything [Robbins’s fans have] come to expect—humor, sex, adventure, ferocious rants about society and religion, characters who swear on the Bible and
“A picaresque masterpiece. These ‘fierce invalids’ have synthesized in a page-turner way so many of the grand and burning questions of this time, the reader will have her energizing orgasms without surcease.”
“Robbins leads the reader on a dizzying charge.”
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“Lush and sexy, containing a great deal of witty social and political commentary.” —
“A lot of fun.” —
“Startlingly evocative . . . has more dramatic reversals than
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“Mystical, bizarre, and just plain funny.”
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“In his seventh and perhaps most complex novel to date, Robbins shines as brilliantly as he has in the past . . . Robbins, who satirized hippie communes a quarter century ago, hasn’t lost a step, offering superb, current social commentary.” —
FIERCE INVALIDS HOME FROM HOT CLIMATES
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BOOKS BY TOM ROBBINS
Fierce Invalids
Home From
Hot Climates
TOM ROBBINS
I want God, I want poetry,
I want danger, I want freedom,
I want goodness, I want sin.
Sometimes naked
Sometimes mad
Now the scholar
Now the fool
