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false <![CDATA[Skinny Legs and All]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165961624m/9370.jpg 9370 13 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? 1231351 1990 Skinny Legs and All total:10270|5:3383|4:3902|3:2356|2:491|1:138| 10270 40711 12378 668 1 9 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 12:39:45 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 14:57:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 5 false false Fri Jul 18 14:53:18 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 15:37:46 -0700 2008
However, I have enjoyed reading two of his books. I almost put down Sti...more...]]> 4 4 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 27 08:11:34 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 08:28:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Jun 29 05:13:40 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 17:44:54 -0700 2007 2
"You are an artist. You know that big picture at the museum midtown, that picture by that fellow Rousseau, it is called The Sleeping Gypsy?"

"Yeah. Sure. That's a very famous painting."

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The premise sounds wild and funny and makes you wonder, briefly, how he could pull it off. And then he doesn't.]]> 5 3 false false Fri Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jun 27 00:01:05 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 12:31:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Aug 12 16:47:51 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 16:49:59 -0700 2008 3 1 false false Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 15:56:20 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 14:51:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Sep 25 17:56:46 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 08:18:54 -0700 2007
Ellen Cherry Charles isn't my favorite Robbins woman, but in many ways, she is his most sympathetic female protagonist. Caught between her art, her stupid husba...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 00:46:49 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 00:47:44 -0700 2007
Skinny Legs and All delves into all of life's big issues: religion, politics, love, war, money and so on, though it has a light tou...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 11:21:55 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 17:42:41 -0800 2008
My whole theory on how Tom Robbins writes a book:
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