Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins - ISBN: 9780553377873
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Stock market crash, psychic monkeys, tattooed strangers. Prepare for chaos!

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

A Novel

$37.71

  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    1 December 1995

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Summary

Get ready for “the ride of your life” (Entertainment Weekly) with this blazingly original novel from the New York Times bestselling author hailed by Financial Times as “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world.”

“Tom Robbins has proved he is the emperor of description, the master of metaphor, the sultan of simile-the man is like Jackson Pollock with a word processor.”-San Antonio Current

When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780553377873
ISBN-10:0553377876
Author:Tom Robbins
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Bantam Books Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:1 December 1995
Weight:352g
Dimensions:208mm x 135mm x 22mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“The ride of your life.”Entertainment Weekly

“Tom Robbins continues to pour water on a dozing America… . The author is one of the most inventive stylists writing today.”People

“One of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world.”Financial Times

“Rant on, Robbins; our carking, swinking, workaday world needs you.”The Washington Post Book World

“A whirlwind of mad incidents … and an endless supply of great lines … A very funny book that might incite a bit of thinking as well as laughter.”Library Journal

“Once again, Tom Robbins has proved he is the emperor of description, the master of metaphor, the sultan of simile—the man is like Jackson Pollock with a word processor.”San Antonio Current

“It’s hard not to fall under Robbins’ seductive spell.”St. Petersburg Times

“Like good psilocybin, Robbins shows us things that we would not otherwise see, and after the light of his particular vision has shown upon an object, we will never see it again in quite the same way.”The Park City Record

About The Author

Tom Robbins

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” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere della Sera. His works include Jitterbug Perfume, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. A Southerner by birth, Tom Robbins lived in and around Seattle from 1962 until he passed away in 2025.

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