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Skinny Legs and All
by Robbins, Tom
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/near fine
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New Milford, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bantam Books, 1990. First printing. Hardcover. As New/near fine. Very slight fading to jacket spine, otherwise immaculate copy of one of Tom Robbins' more brilliant novels, with animated sacred vessels from Solomon's Temple attempting to return to the Holy Land. Their journey takes them to New York, where a restaurant run by an Arab and a Jew features belly dancing that will heal all rifts; meanwhile, Southern Baptists and Zionists are trying to provoke Jesus' second coming with a well-placed bomb...
Synopsis
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, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils.Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat.In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel?From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 642
- Title
- Skinny Legs and All
- Author
- Robbins, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
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