Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins’ legendary memoir–wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe.Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates—provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, … singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, pulsating with strong social and philosophical undercurrents, his irreverent classics have introduced countless readers to natural born hitchhiking cowgirls, born-again monkeys, a philosophizing can of beans, exiled royalty, and problematic redheads.
In Tibetan Peach Pie, Robbins turns that unparalleled literary sensibility inward, stitching together stories of his unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his globetrotting adventures —told in his unique voice that combines the sweet and sly, the spiritual and earthy. The grandchild of Baptist preachers, Robbins would become over the course of half a century a poet-interruptus, an air force weatherman, a radio dj, an art-critic-turned-psychedelic-journeyman, a world-famous novelist, and a counter-culture hero, leading a life as unlikely, magical, and bizarre as those of his quixotic characters.
Robbins offers intimate snapshots of Appalachia during the Great Depression, the West Coast during the Sixties psychedelic revolution, international roving before homeland security monitored our travels, and New York publishing when it still relied on trees. Written with the big-hearted comedy and mesmerizing linguistic invention for which he is known, Tibetan Peach Pie is an invitation into the private world of a literary legend.
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Tom Robbins is known for his witty writing, even when telling stories of his own adventurous life. One has to wonder if it’s all true or a little embellished. Either way it’s a fun read.
Started the book, just couldn’t get through it. Not my style. Others may like it.
If you have read and loved any of Tom’s books, you must read this. What a wonderful look at the man and his life!
boring
He is a colorful guy and it was fun to read about his life experiences.
The author has such a refreshing way of writing. It was laugh out loud funny in places.
Great stoner book. Reminded me of the 70’s…..I think. Hes (robbins) is not normal. Thats what makes this such a good time. Twist one up and get lost for a while
This book just kinda ambles on in no apparent direction. It’s mildly entertaining
I love all Tom Robbins books. This one offered an insightful look into the author’s life and times.
His research was lacking. You just can’t take one passage from the Bible without including the other documenting portions.
I love a good memoir of someone who has led an interesting life. Mr. Robbins’ books are wild, fantastic, fun and strange. His life is quite similar to his novels, although not quite as out-of-this-world. Read “Tibetan Peach Pie”. You won’t regret it.
Great writer who often surprises with novel ways of expression. Not really an absorbing story, more of a series of vignettes from a very interesting life.
I hated it. In the few pages I read he’s telling stories of some dumb things he did as a child and that’s as far as I could make it. Oh well. I haven’t read any of his books but I would be willing to try a couple.
I love the way Tom Robbins manages to juxtaposition the sacred and the ridiculous.