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  • Published: 1 December 1995
  • ISBN: 9780553377873
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

A Novel




Get ready for “the ride of your life” (Entertainment Weekly) with this blazingly original novel from the New York Times bestselling author hailed by Financial Times as “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world.”

“Tom Robbins has proved he is the emperor of description, the master of metaphor, the sultan of simile—the man is like Jackson Pollock with a word processor.”—San Antonio Current

When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there’s no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses. Over these fateful three days, you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot-card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space.

  • Published: 1 December 1995
  • ISBN: 9780553377873
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins is the author of Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life with Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All and Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - highly original novels that have left their mark on our culture. He lives near Seattle.

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Praise for Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

"The ride of your life." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Tom Robbins continues to pour water on a dozing America . . . the author is one of the most inventive stylists writing today." -- People

"One of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world." -- Financial Times, London

"If [Jitterbug Perfume's and Skinny Legs and All's] fuel-injected prose . . . freaked you, then toddle back to Robert Fulghum, because FROG PAJAMAS is a scream in the same vein." -- USA Today

"Rant on Robbins; our carking, swinking, workaday world needs you." -- The Washington Post Book World

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