Skinny Legs and All.
by ROBBINS, Tom
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0553057758
- ISBN 13
- 9780553057751
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bantam Books, 1990. Signed on the half-title page by Tom Robbins. Additionally inscribed: To Kevin. First edition / First printing. Purple cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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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- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16893
- Title
- Skinny Legs and All.
- Author
- ROBBINS, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Purple cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0553057758
- ISBN 13
- 9780553057751
- Publisher
- Bantam Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1990.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Alternative History Fiction; Humor;
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