Praise for Tom Robbins and
FIERCE INVALIDS HOME FROM HOT CLIMATES
“Robbins proves again that he can tell a wicked tale . . . [He] has created a spokesman for a world order where the enlightened individual once again reigns. At least individuals who can handle it.” — Kansas City Star
“Like any Robbins tale, it’s deceptively funny yet dead serious in its confrontation with Big Issues: the nature of God and Satan; the hypocrisy of organized religions; the insidious evils of government, big business, and advertising; liberalism vs. conservatism; the condition of humanity in an inhumane world.” — The Sacramento Bee
“For fans of Robbins’s nonlinear playfulness, this story of a CIA agent hooked on sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll offers plenty of abandon and unexpected rewards.”
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San Francisco Chronicle
“[Robbins] takes us on his typical rowdy and irreverent ride, surprising us both with the story he tells and with the way he tells it . . . may be Robbins’s best work to date.” — The Richmond Times Dispatch
“Robbins is still the Houdini of unchained similes and metaphors.” — Detroit Free Press
“Ingenious . . . Tom Robbins writes operas chock full of mind-altering images and calls them novels . . . Fans like him for going all-out cosmic, for twisting what seem like unlikely words into brilliant Mobius strips of humor and beauty.” — The Seattle Times
“[Robbins] has written a new novel that pops like a dogwood in springtime . . . it will do everything to delight those who realize they need a jolt from his cosmic jumper cables every so often.”— Philadelphia News
“The father (in this century) of all nose-thumbers . . . [Robbins] is also the inspiration for disreputable treaders of the line between thriller and literature.” — Los Angeles Times
“Robbins balances the comic and the cosmic much as a juggler might balance a kitchen chair on a spoon. Highly recommended.” — Library Journal
“[Robbins] brews another deranged and delightful concoction about a man who does it all for God, country, and the love of women.” — Fortune
“Philosophical screwball comedy.” — People
“Full of little wisdoms, Invalids is the literary equivalent of whitewater-rafting the rapids of Africa’s Zambezi River with the Marx Brothers in tow.” — Entertainment Weekly
“One of the most inventive writers on the planet.”
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The Dallas Morning News
“An incredibly humorous and completely outlandish romp . . . The high jinks couldn’t be any wilder.” — Booklist
“No one writes like Robbins . . . When you look closely at his work, there are virtually no throwaway lines—they seem crafted.” —Tracy Johnson, Salon.com
“Everything [Robbins’s fans have] come to expect—humor, sex, adventure, ferocious rants about society and religion, characters who swear on the Bible and Finnegans Wake , asides on everything from etymology to violence, and a disregard to anybody else’s definition of good taste . . . His novels lure the adventurous and warn the timid.” — BookPage
“A picaresque masterpiece. These ‘fierce invalids’ have synthesized in a page-turner way so many of the grand and burning questions of this time, the reader will have her energizing orgasms without surcease.”
—Andrei Codrescu
“Robbins leads the reader on a dizzying charge.”
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Playboy
“Lush and sexy, containing a great deal of witty social and political commentary.” — Publishers Weekly
“A lot of fun.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Startlingly evocative . . . has more dramatic reversals than
Othello
. . . Robbins has made a viable art form out of over-the-topness, to say nothing of cosmic muffinry.”
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San Francisco Examiner Book Review
“Mystical, bizarre, and just plain funny.”
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Rocky Mountain News
“In his seventh and perhaps most complex novel to date, Robbins shines as brilliantly as he has in the past . . . Robbins, who satirized hippie communes a quarter century ago, hasn’t lost a step, offering superb, current social commentary.” — New York Post