NY: Putnam, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.5"x9.5" 415 pp. First printing. Tan boards. Red spine w/gilt letters. Book design by Glen Edelstein. Jacket art c Leslie W. LePere. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Light soil spotsand minor edge and shelf wear to DJ. "As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time . . . Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. . . . A delight from beginning to end."—Buffalo News
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 "t...
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Tom Robbins has been called “a vital natural resource” by The Oregonian , “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world” by the Financial Times of London, and “the most dangerous writer in the world today” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle since 1962.

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Bookseller: Blacks Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 13749
Title: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Author: Robbins, Tom
Format/Binding: Hardcover_boards
Book Condition: Used - Collectible - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0553107755
ISBN 13: 9780553107753
Publisher: Putnam
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 2000

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