New Releases by Tom Robbins

Get ready for “the ride of your life” (Entertainment Weekly) with this blazingly original novel from the New York Times bestselling author hailed by Financial Times as “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world.” “Tom Robbins has proved he is the emperor of description, the master of metaphor, the sultan of simile—the man is like Jackson Pollock with a word processor.”—San Antonio Current When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there’s no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses. Over these fateful three days, you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot-card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space.

Sissy Hankshaw a été dotée à sa naissance des deux plus longs pouces du monde : elle deviendra donc la plus grande auto-stoppeuse des Etats-Unis. Conduite par ses pouces, Sissy fait des rencontres étonnantes qui transforment sa vie ; la Comtesse, magnat des déodorants intimes ; Julian Gitche, l''Indien, qui sera un temps son mari ; le docteur Robbins, psychiatre farfelu. Et surtout, les cow-girls, qui revendiquent l''égalité avec les hommes sous la conduite de la belle Bonanza Jellybean. Le tout dans une invention verbale continue et un plaisir d''épuiser les ressources du langage sans égal dans la jeune littérature américaine. Pour Le Canard enchaîné : " Un sacré courant d''air, un bain d''oxygène. Un traitement écologique à l''usage de l''humanité. " Et aussi un grand film de Gus Van Sant avec la belle Uma Thurman.

“Written with a style and humor that haven’t been seen since Mark Twain.”—Los Angeles Times What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if “the Corpse” on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is—what does that portend for the future of western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as popular entertainment and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tell us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out. In the process, this stunningly original seriocomic thriller is fully capable of simultaneously eating a literary hot dog and eroding the borders of the mind. “Hard to put down because of the sheer brilliance and fun of the writing. The sentiments of Brautigan and the joyously compassionate omniscience of Fielding dance through the pages garbed colorfully in the language of Joyce.”—Rolling Stone