The Villa Incognito
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Villa Incognito
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Author : Tom Robbins
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2005-08-30
Villa Incognito written by Tom Robbins and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-30 with Fiction categories.
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 story) and you’ll have a foretaste of Tom Robbins’s eighth and perhaps most beautifully crafted novel--a work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat. On one level, this is a book about identity, masquerade and disguise--about “the false mustache of the world”--but neither the mists of Laos nor the smog of Bangkok, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the linguistic phosphor that illuminates the pages of Villa Incognito. A female fan once wrote to Tom Robbins: “Your books make me think, they make me laugh, they make me horny and they make me aware of the wonder of everything in life.” Villa Incognito will surely arouse a similar response in many readers, for in its lusty, amusing way it both celebrates existence and challenges our ideas about it. To say much more about a novel as fresh and surprising as Villa Incognito would run the risk of diluting the sheer fun of reading it. As his dedicated readers worldwide know full well, it’s best to climb aboard the Tom Robbins tilt-a-whirl, kiss preconceptions and sacred cows goodbye and simply enjoy the ride.
Villa Incognito
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Author : Oldcastle Books, Limited
language : en
Publisher: No Exit Press
Release Date : 2006-05-02
Villa Incognito written by Oldcastle Books, Limited and has been published by No Exit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-02 with categories.
Villa Incognito
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Author : Tom Robbins
language : de
Publisher: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH
Release Date : 2014-02-01
Villa Incognito written by Tom Robbins and has been published by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-01 with Fiction categories.
Chaos in Laos – Tom Robbins ist Kult. Villa Incognito – ein Paradies im laotischen Dschungel. Vorzügliche Currys, charmante Konkubinen, Philosophiestunden jederzeit gratis. Kommen Sie her, aber sind Sie schwindelfrei? Der einzige Weg führt übers Hochseil. Passen Sie auf. Aber das alles ist besser, als in New York herumzuhängen. Und für Notfälle haben wir hier auch einen falschen Priester. Eine wilde Fabel, die keinen Lachmuskel untrainiert, keine Weisheit ungewendet und keine suchende Seele unerleuchtet lässt. «Robbins fährt mal wieder mächtig auf. Das ist Kunst.» (Rolling Stone) «Der beste Schriftsteller der Welt.» (Thomas Pynchon) «Eine Menge Spaß, vermengt mit einer nicht zu knappen Dosis Tiefsinn.» (Berliner Zeitung)
Wild Ducks Flying Backward
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Author : Tom Robbins
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2006-08-29
Wild Ducks Flying Backward written by Tom Robbins and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-29 with Literary Collections categories.
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 to the New York Times, High Times, and Life. A generous sampling, collected here for the first time and including works as diverse as scholarly art criticism and some decidedly untypical country- music lyrics, Wild Ducks Flying Backward offers a rare sweeping overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original. Whether he is rocking with the Doors, depoliticizing Picasso’s Guernica, lamenting the angst-ridden state of contemporary literature, or drooling over tomato sandwiches and a species of womanhood he calls “the genius waitress,” Robbins’s briefer writings often exhibit the same five traits that perhaps best characterize his novels: an imaginative wit, a cheerfully brash disregard for convention, a sweetly nasty eroticism, a mystical but keenly observant eye, and an irrepressible love of language. Embedded in this primarily journalistic compilation are a couple of short stories, a sheaf of largely unpublished poems, and an off-beat assessment of our divided nation. And wherever we open Wild Ducks Flying Backward, we’re apt to encounter examples of the intently serious playfulness that percolates from the mind of a self-described “romantic Zen hedonist” and “stray dog in the banquet halls of culture.”
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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Author : Tom Robbins
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2003-06-17
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates written by Tom Robbins and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-17 with Fiction categories.
“As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time . . . Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. . . . A delight from beginning to end.”—Buffalo News 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. Praise for Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates “Superb.”—New York Post “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
Tibetan Peach Pie
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Author : Tom Robbins
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Tibetan Peach Pie written by Tom Robbins and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir--wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates—provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, pulsating with strong social and philosophical undercurrents, his irreverent classics have introduced countless readers to natural born hitchhiking cowgirls, born-again monkeys, a philosophizing can of beans, exiled royalty, and problematic redheads. In Tibetan Peach Pie, Robbins turns that unparalleled literary sensibility inward, stitching together stories of his unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his globetrotting adventures —told in his unique voice that combines the sweet and sly, the spiritual and earthy. The grandchild of Baptist preachers, Robbins would become over the course of half a century a poet-interruptus, an air force weatherman, a radio dj, an art-critic-turned-psychedelic-journeyman, a world-famous novelist, and a counter-culture hero, leading a life as unlikely, magical, and bizarre as those of his quixotic characters. Robbins offers intimate snapshots of Appalachia during the Great Depression, the West Coast during the Sixties psychedelic revolution, international roving before homeland security monitored our travels, and New York publishing when it still relied on trees. Written with the big-hearted comedy and mesmerizing linguistic invention for which he is known, Tibetan Peach Pie is an invitation into the private world of a literary legend.
Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas
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Author : Tom Robbins
language : en
Publisher: No Exit Press
Release Date : 2002-01-05
Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas written by Tom Robbins and has been published by No Exit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-05 with Fiction categories.
When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you - an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker - are going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt before Monday. But there's no way you can anticipate that over these fateful three days you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from your own sexuality to outer space. This is Tom Robbins in his finest form. 'A piece of working magic, warm, funny and sane' - Thomas Pynchon
Villa Incognito
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Author : Tom Robbins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
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Herv Guibert
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Author : Jean-Pierre Boulé
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Herv Guibert written by Jean-Pierre Boulé and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first full-length study to cover the complete texts of Hervé Guibert (1955–1991), offering a thorough documentation of his literary output. The book is guided by Guibert’s relation to the novel, a major line of enquiry throughout, as well as his experimentation with voices in particular. One of Boulé’s main contentions is that Guibert arrives at the creation of a new literary genre, the roman faux, with the publication of his best-known work To the Friend who did not save my life. The book ends by considering the works Guibert produced after he was diagnosed as HIV positive, within the parameter of the voices of the self.
Hervelino
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Author : Mathieu Lindon
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
Hervelino written by Mathieu Lindon and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On Hervé Guibert and the difficulty of writing and speaking about someone beloved and revered. “Soon that was my nickname for Hervé, what with my habit of italianizing the names of my nearest and dearest … Hervelino: that didn’t make me think so much of Hervé as of us both. The word might not seem like much but it was him and it was me, he took it for himself.” Mathieu Lindon met the writer and photographer Hervé Guibert in 1978. The nickname Hervelino marked the start of their friendship, which was cemented a decade later by the years they both spent in Rome. Guibert was a pensionnaire at the Villa Médicis starting in 1987; Lindon became a fellow pensionnaire the next year, and the two would stay in Italy until 1990. These Roman years are at the heart of this autobiographie à deux that alternates between humor and melancholy. Guibert had just learned that he was HIV-positive and would die not long after returning to France and rising to fame with his searing masterpiece To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life—in which Lindon himself was a character. Hervelino is a book about the difficulty of writing and speaking about someone beloved and revered. In recounting their time in Italy, Lindon contends with the impossibility of writing about Guibert: “To write about Rome is to skip over everything I don’t dare to write because it’s so hard to make sense of Hervé.” Hervelino is a story of a singular friendship, and of the books read and shared by the friend who was loved and lost. As it closes with each inscription Guibert wrote for his friend Mathieu and with Lindon’s present-day commentary below it, what remains are shards and fragments of a friendship sealed by illness and death, enshrined by literature and love.