SKINNY LEGS AND ALL
TOM ROBBINS
reprint
SALES POINTS:
Tom Robbins has an incredibly strong fan base
Tom Robbins is No Exit's strongest backlist seller
His last novel, Villa Incognito was very successful
MARKET:
literary fiction
DESCRIPTION:
Publication
21st September 2006
date:
An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United
price: £9.99
Nations....
isbn: 1-84243-034-3
It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which this
Binding: paperback gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel spins, in which a bean can
Format: B (198 x 129mm) philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York
extent: 422pp 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
Rights: UK & Commonwealth
one, like Salome's veils.
Market Not for sale in the USA
Restrictions: & Canada 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
BIC code: FGC
the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood.
Report Code: NE
And its mood is defiantly upbeat. In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style,
13 digit isbn: 978-1-84243-034-7 here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page,
ean: 9-781842-430347 wild and sexy, like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel?
REVIEW COVERAGE:
Praise for Tom Robbins:
―one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world ..." – The
Financial Times
For a review copy, or for further information,
please contact: "This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and
Chris Burrows PR on 0161 445 6635 or sane -that you just want to ride off into the sunset with ..." - Thomas Pynchon
email: chrisburrows_authorpr@btinternet.com
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:
Publisher: UK Distribution:
No Exit Press Turnaround Tom Robbins has been called "a vital natural resource" by The Portland
PO Box 394 3 Olympia Trading Estate Oregonian, "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world" by
Harpenden Coburg Rd
the FT, and "the most dangerous writer in the world today" by Fernanda Pivano
Herts London N22 6TZ
of Italy's Corriere della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and
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Tel/Fax 01582 761264 around Seattle since 1962. His work includes Fierce Invalids Home From Hot
Climates, Jitterbug Perfume, Still Life With Woodpecker, Skinny Legs And All, Half
Asleep In Frog Pajamas, Villa Incognito and Wild Ducks Flying Backward.
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