Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals.”-San Diego Union-Tribune and definitely a provocative rascal.”-The Tennessean“Whoever said truth is stranger than fiction never read a Tom Robbins novel. Pour yourself a bowl of chips and dig in.”-Daily News, New York “Robbins is a great writer. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones on another it’s a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life.Praise for Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates“Superb.”-New York Post “Dangerous? Wicked? Forbidden? You bet. And as we dog Switters’s strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the “true” Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins-that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer-at the top of his game. Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. A delight from beginning to end.”-Buffalo NewsSwitters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government a pacifist who carries a gun a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy a cyberwhiz who hates computers a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. “As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be “Beat” and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than fifty years ago. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Ann Charters.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance. The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience.
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