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Tom Robbins

    July 22, 1932
    Tom Robbins
    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. Völker dieser Welt, relaxt!, englische Ausgabe
    Fierce invalids home from hot climates
    White Weekends
    Tibetan Peach Pie
    Stones of Aran
    Master the Art of Effective Communication
    • 2024

      Master the Art of Effective Communication

      Proven Strategies to Enhance Your Personal and Professional Relationships

      • 106 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Transform your communication skills to enhance both personal and professional relationships. This guide provides practical strategies for effectively expressing your thoughts and feelings, ensuring you are heard and understood. It delves into the nuances of interpersonal dynamics, offering insights into building confidence and fostering meaningful connections. Unlock the potential for positive change in your interactions and navigate social situations with ease.

      Master the Art of Effective Communication
    • 2015

      Tibetan Peach Pie

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.1(140)Add rating

      Internationally bestselling novelist Tom Robbins shares wild tales from his life in this legendary memoir. His warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels, such as Still Life With Woodpecker and Jitterbug Perfume, serve as a gateway into his unique imagination. Robbins' irreverent classics introduce readers to eccentric characters like hitchhiking cowgirls and philosophizing cans of beans. In this memoir, he turns his literary sensibility inward, weaving stories from his unconventional life—from his Appalachian childhood to globetrotting adventures—told in his distinct voice that blends the sweet and sly, the spiritual and earthy. As the grandchild of Baptist preachers, Robbins evolved over fifty years into a poet-interruptus, air force weatherman, radio DJ, art critic, and counter-culture hero, living a life as magical and bizarre as his characters. He offers intimate snapshots of Appalachia during the Great Depression, the Sixties psychedelic revolution on the West Coast, and a time when international travel was less monitored. With big-hearted comedy and mesmerizing linguistic invention, this memoir invites readers into the private world of a literary legend.

      Tibetan Peach Pie
    • 2012

      'This is one of those special novels - a piece of working magic, warm funny and sane - that you just want to ride off into the sunset with' - Thomas Pynchon Long-awaited new edition of classic Robbins novel that is still as fresh now as when originally published. Starring Sissy Hanshaw - flawlessly beautiful, almost - a small-time girl with big-time dreams and a thumb to match, you'll oh so easily find her hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes and your sleeping bag. Delicious.

      Even Cowgirls get the Blues. Sissy, Schicksalsjahre einer Tramperin, englische Ausgabe
    • 2011

      'B' format edition of Tom Robbins most recent novel which is being released alongside re-issues of 'Still Life with Woodpecker' and 'Jitterbug Perfume' - both also in 'B' format editions. 'Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzle the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller' - Thomas Pynchon 'In his seventh, and perhaps most complex novel to date, Robbins shines as brilliantly as he has in the past...superb social commentary' - New York Post

      Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. Völker dieser Welt, relaxt!, englische Ausgabe
    • 2010

      This is the story of Tom Robbins - father, husband, pastor, cancer survivor. With surprising honesty, Tom shares his experience with acute myeloid leukemia and the lessons God taught him through that experience.

      The Day I Was Blessed With Leukemia. A Pastor's Story
    • 2010

      Tom Robbins' first fiction in five years (and perhaps his most audacious ever), B is for Beer explores various aspects of beer culture - ancient, modern, and otherworldly; brutal, infantile and divine - and dramatises the surprising things that happen when the life of a feisty nursery school kid named Gracie Perkel intersects with each. Billed by Robbins as 'the first children's book about beer', this inspired work taps into the barrel of life's existential mysteries and is truly meant to sit proudly with his other novels in grown-up literature sections.

      B Is For Beer. B wie Bier, englische Ausgabe
    • 2009

      B Is for Beer

      • 125 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
      3.4(5560)Add rating

      A Children's Book About Beer? Yes, believe it or not—but B Is for Beer is also a book for adults, and bear in mind that it's the work of maverick bestselling novelist Tom Robbins, inter-nationally known for his ability to both seriously illuminate and comically entertain. Once upon a time (right about now) there was a planet (how about this one?) whose inhabitants consumed thirty-six billion gallons of beer each year (it's a fact, you can Google it). Among those affected, each in his or her own way, by all the bubbles, burps, and foam, was a smart, wide-eyed, adventurous kindergartner named Gracie; her distracted mommy; her insensitive dad; her non-conformist uncle; and a magical, butt-kicking intruder from a world within our world. Populated by the aforementioned characters—and as charming as it may be subversive—B Is for Beer involves readers, young and old, in a surprising, far-reaching investigation into the limits of reality, the transformative powers of children, and, of course, the ultimate meaning of a tall, cold brewski.

      B Is for Beer
    • 2008

      Stones of Aran

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      4.2(12)Add rating

      Every cliff, inlet and headland reveals layers of myth and historical memory, and Robinson makes beautifully crafted observations about the habits of birds, plants and the humans who lived there and endured, leaving records in stone - on the walls, cairns and ancient forts - in story and in oral tradition.

      Stones of Aran
    • 2008

      In White Weekends, Tom Robbins travels from one end of Europe to the other in a bid to disover the best and most beautiful resorts for independent weekend breaks. From powder, parties, and budgets to romantic, child-friendly, and luxurious, there are chapters covering every type of weekend imaginable. Each chapter details Tom's experience in one magical destination and is backed up by The Knowledge—practical information detailing how to get there, where to stay, where to ski, where to eat, and where to party—and a Best of the Rest section so you have a variety of resorts to choose from whatever sort of break you're after. Covering more than 100 reports in all, this fresh, funky, and flawlessly illustrated book will be the perfect gift for anyone who appreciates the stunning beauty of the mountains and the perfect self-purchase for the millions of people addicted to the exhilaration of the slopes.

      White Weekends
    • 2005

      An anthology of writings features both nonfiction essays and short stories that cover such topics as art critiques, poetry, country song lyrics, odes to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, tomato sandwiches, and the Doors.

      Wild Ducks Flying Backward