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  • Published: 1 January 1996
  • ISBN: 9780553377880
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $36.99

Skinny Legs and All

A Novel



A reissue of a favorite from New York Times bestselling author Tom Robbins to coincide with the novella B Is for Beer, to be published by Ecco in February 2009.

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?

  • Published: 1 January 1996
  • ISBN: 9780553377880
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $36.99

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 Skinny Legs and All

"A euphoric wonderwork." -- Los Angeles Times

"Flat-out fabulous." - Playboy

"Tom Robbins is a vital national treasure." -- The Oregonian

"Robbins possesses magnet-like power." -- USA Today

"Funny and tough . . . Robbins is an American original." -- Washington Magazine