"Skinny Legs and All"
(Reviewed by Judi Clark FEB 10, 1998)
When I picked up this book, it had been awhile since I read a Tom Robbins novel Oh, what a pleasure to read his quirky, humorous yet intelligent style again.
This one is a great story about religions and what they mean to people and more specifically, to objects that are not so inanimate. Pivotal to the story is one belly dancer and just as necessary is one Arab, one Jew, a welder and her artist husband, a can of beans, conch shell, a painted stick, a spoon and a dirty sock. I've read his first three novels, loved them, but I think this one tops them because he's tackling religion and the Middle East.
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Bibliography: (with links to Amazon.com)
- Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
- Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1976)
- Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
- Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
- Skinny Legs and All (1990)
- Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994)
- Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (May 2000)
- Villa Incognito (April 2003)
- Wild Ducks Flying Backward: Short Writings (August 2005)
Related Books:
- Tom Robbins: A Critical Companion by Catherine E. Hoyser, Lorena Laura Stookey (1997)
Movies from Books
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)
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Book Marks:
- Romp around this jam packed website The Aftrlife, A Tom Robbins Playground
- January Magazine interview with Tom Robbins
- Salon Magazine on Tom Robbins
- Seattle Weekly inteview with Tom Robbins
- Rambles review of Skinny Legs and All
- Humorous Quotes from Skinny Legs and All
- SF Gate review of Fierce Invalids
- The New York Times review of Fierce Invalids
- Pop Matters review of Villa Incognito
- Washington Post review of Villa Incognito
- New York Daily News Villa Incognito
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About the Author:
Tom Robbins was born in Blowing Rock, North Carolina in 1936 and is the grandson of two Baptist preachers, He attended military school, spent two years at Washington and Lee University, and received a degree in social science from the Virginia Commonwealth University in 1959.
In 1962, he left the south to move to Seattle, where he began work as a copy editor and an art critic at local newspapers. His success as a writer began when his first novel, Another Roadside Attraction, came out in paperback in 1972. Robbins currently lives in LaConner, Washington.
