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Wild Ducks Flying Backward - The Short Writings of Tom Robbins (Paperback, Bantam trade pbk. ed)
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward - The Short Writings of Tom Robbins (Paperback, Bantam trade pbk. ed)
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Loot Price R494
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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 an American original.
Whether 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," Tom Robbins's briefer writings exhibit the
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 brand-new short stories, a sheaf of
largely unpublished poems, and an offbeat assessment of our divided
nation. Wherever you open Wild Ducks Flying Backward," " you'll
encounter the serious playfulness that percolates from the mind of
a self-described "romantic Zen hedonist" and "stray dog in the
banquet halls of culture."
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