Reissue Edition 
Paperback, 337 pages
Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap)
Publication date: May 1, 1990
Dimensions (in inches): 8.25 x 5.19 x .83
ISBN: 0553349481

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Reviews and Commentary for Another Roadside Attraction

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Literary Fiction Editor's Recommended Book, 01/16/97:
It's clear that when Robbins sits down to write, he has one thing on his mind: having himself some fun. I read Another Roadside Attraction, years ago, then immediately went back to the beginning of the book and read it again. Robbins holds nothing back in this, his first novel. It's a perfect introduction to the Robbins oeuvre of oddness. 

Synopsis:
Come on in to Captain Kendrick's Memorial Hot Dog Wildlife Preserve (a roadside attraction only bestselling Tom Robbins could invent)--things are going to get outrageous! Published to coincide with Robbins' new release, Skinny Legs and All. 

The publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.:
"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 portent for the future of western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes 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 a lot more. It tells us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out. In the process, this stunningly original seriocomic thriller eating a literary hotdog and eroding the borders of the mind.

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

 Reissue Edition 
Paperback, 365 pages
Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap)
Publication date: May 1, 1990
Dimensions (in inches): 8.25 x 5.19 x .87
ISBN: 055334949X 

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Reviews and Commentary for Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 

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Synopsis:
The outrageous bestseller that stars Sissy Hankshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bag. . . . Follow Sissy's amazing odyssey from Virginia to Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax. 

Synopsis:
Follow the amazing odyssey of Sissy Hankshaw, small-town girl with big-time dreams, as she travels from Virginia to Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands. 9 cassettes. --This text refers to the audio cassettes edition of this title.
 

 Rep Edition 
Paperback
Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap)
Publication date: December 1, 1995
Dimensions (in inches): 8.64 x 5.54 x 1.07
ISBN: 0553377876 

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Reviews and Commentary for Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas 

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Synopsis:
Available for the first time in trade paperback, Tom Robbins' inventive, irreverent, and highly praised Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas is an outrageous novel that begins on the day the stock market falls out of bed and breaks its back. 

Synopsis:
Startling, thoughtful and hilarious all at the same time, a Tom Robbins novel invites readers to laugh and to ponder; it stimulates them while it tickles their metaphysical fancies. And never has Robbins been in more magical form than with his latest triumph--an outrageous novel that begins on the day the stock market falls out of bed and breaks its back. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

 Synopsis:
When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, and a tattooed stranger pays you a visit, you are convinced you're facing the Weekend From Hell. 9 cassettes. --This text refers to the audio cassettes edition of this title.
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 Reissue Edition 
Paperback
Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap)
Publication date: May 1, 1990
Dimensions (in inches): 8.27 x 5.20 x .87
ISBN: 0553348981 

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Reviews and Commentary for Jitterbug Perfume

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Synopsis:
Robbins calls Jitterbug Perfume "an epic." It is also a saga, and a saga must have a hero. The hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a great-horned god. Some people actually believe that the liquid in the bottle is--the secret essence of the universe? 

The publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.:
"Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle is actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon becaused it is leaking and there is only a drop of two left.

"Jitterbug Perfume has a large and exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interested in immortality and/or perfume... Go see for yourself; you'll have a good time."--The Washington Post 
 
 

 Paperback
Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap)
Publication date: December 1, 1995
Dimensions (in inches): 8.26 x 5.24 x 1.18
ISBN: 0553377884 

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Reviews and Commentary for Skinny Legs and All

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Synopsis:
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 Robbins spins this alarmingly provocative book. In his audacious style, the bestselling author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues deals with the most sensitive issues of the day. First time in trade paper.