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Seller: Serendipity: The Used Book Place, FRIDAY HARBOR, WA, U.S.A.Serendipity: The Used Book Place
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Near fine first edition inscribed by author "To Jan" on half title page. Near fine dust jacket in mylar.
Seller Inventory # 6664
- Title
- Skinny Legs and All
- Author
- Robbins, Tom
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0553057758
- ISBN 13
- 9780553057751
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 730.284 grams
- Dimensions
- 6.5 inches width by 9.5 inches height by 1.4 inches depth
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From the Inside Flap
An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations....
It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils.
Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat.
In the gloriously inventive To
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Serendipity: The Used Book Place
FRIDAY HARBOR, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since March 27, 2003
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