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Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins

Americanb. July 22, 1932Countercultural Fiction

Tom Robbins wrote exuberant, countercultural novels blending philosophical speculation, comic adventure, and lyrical excess. Still Life with Woodpecker and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues found huge audiences in the 1970s and 1980s.

Works

  • Even Cowgirls Get the BluesComic picaresque following adventurous thumb-hitchhiking heroine across America→
  • Still Life with WoodpeckerPhilosophical love story of redhead and inanimate object in modern civilization→
  • Another Roadside AttractionComic adventure of freaks running roadside zoo and biological museum→
  • Jitterbug PerfumePicaresque adventure intertwining scent, spirituality, and eccentric love→
  • Skinny Legs and AllNarrative of sentient vegetables fleeing civilization and discovering consciousness→
  • Fierce Invalids Home from Hot ClimatesComic adventure of soldier navigating exotic locations and philosophical chaos→

Related

Richard Brautigan·Ken Kesey·Jack Kerouac·Carl Hiaasen·John Irving·Kurt Vonnegut
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