Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Price
$9.85
Publisher
Random House Audio
Publication Date
Unabridged edition (August 30, 2005
ISBN-13
978-1415924044
Dimensions
6.25 x 1.34 x 5.37 inches
Weight
8.8 ounces
Description
Review “A single sentence from Robbins is worth the price of admission.” – Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)“Hilarious.”— New York Times Book Review “A treat. Robbins is fearless, original, mind-expanding and funny as hell.”— San Diego Union-Tribune From the Trade Paperback edition.
Features & Highlights
- Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from
- Esquire
- to
- Harper’s
- , from
- Playboy
- to the
- New York Times
- ,
- High Times
- , and
- Life
- . A generous sampling, collected here for the first time and including works as diverse as scholarly art criticism and some decidedly untypical country-music lyrics,
- Wild Ducks Flying Backward
- offers a rare sweeping overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original.Whether he is rocking with the Doors, depoliticizing Picasso’s
- Guernica
- , lamenting the angst-ridden state of contemporary literature, or drooling over tomato sandwiches and a species of womanhood he calls “the genius waitress,” Robbins’s briefer writings often exhibit the same five traits that perhaps best characterize his novels: an imaginative wit, a cheerfully brash disregard for convention, a sweetly nasty eroticism, a mystical but keenly observant eye, and an irrepressible love of language.Embedded in this primarily journalistic compilation are a couple of short stories, a sheaf of largely unpublished poems, and an off-beat assessment of our divided nation. And wherever we open
- Wild Ducks Flying Backward
- , we’re apt to encounter examples of the intently serious playfulness that percolates from the mind of a self-described “romantic Zen hedonist” and “stray dog in the banquet halls of culture.”
- From the Hardcover edition.
