Skinny Legs and All

<b>A gutsy fun-loving and alarmingly provocative novel from the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author hailed by <i>Financial Times </i>as one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world</b> <p/><b>Hilarious.--<i>Milwaukee Journal</i></b><br><b>A euphoric wonderwork.--<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><b>Flat-out fabulous.--<i>Playboy</i></b><br><i> </i><br>An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. . . . <p/>It sounds like the beginning of a joke but it's the axis around which <i>Skinny Legs and All </i>spins 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. <p/><i>Skinny Legs and All</i> deals in Tom Robbins's audacious manner with 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. <p/>In the gloriously inventive Robbins style here are characters phrases stories and ideas that dance together on the page wild and sexy like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel?