ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTR - Softcover

Robbins, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345292456 ISBN 13: 9780345292452

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1980

Synopsis

What if the Second Coming didn't quite come off as advertised? What if "the Corpse" on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is - what does that portend for the future of western civilisation? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda re-establishes the flea circus as popular entertainment and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and more. It tells us what the '60s were really all about, not by reporting the psychedelic age, but by recreating it.

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Review

" Written with a style and humor that haven't been seen since Mark Twain . . . it is a prize." --"Los Angeles Times."

"Written with a style and humor that haven't been seen since Mark Twain . . . it is a prize."--Los Angeles Times

"Hard to put down because of the sheer brilliance and fun of the writing. The sentiments of Brautigan and the joyously compassionate omniscience of Fielding dance through the pages garbed colorfully in the language of Joyce."--Rolling Stone

About the Author

Tom Robbins has been called "a vital natural resource" by The Oregonian, "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world" by the Financial Times of London, and "the most dangerous writer in the world today" by Fernanda Pivano of Italy's Corriere della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle since 1962.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0345292456
• ISBN 13: 9780345292452
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English