Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Paperback - 2001
by Tom Robbins
Now in paperback comes the newest bestseller by the author of "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas" and "Skinny Legs and All". Robbins explores, challenges, mocks, and celebrates virtually every major aspect of our contemporary era as he brings onstage the most complex and compelling character he's ever created.
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Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior).
Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn't merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. And as we dog Switters's strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the "true" Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins -- that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer -- at the top of his game.
On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it's a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life.
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- Title Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
- Author Tom Robbins
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: sixth
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam, New York
- Date 2001-05-29
- ISBN 9780553379334 / 055337933X
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.23 x 5.29 x 1.02 in (20.90 x 13.44 x 2.59 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Adventure and adventurers, Adventure fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99051683
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 12/11/2009, Page 37
- People Weekly, 06/10/2013, Page 60
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