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Tibetan peach pie : a true account of an imaginative life / Tom Robbins.

by Robbins, Tom.

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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.

Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Humorists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

9780062267405 (hc.)

006226740X (hc.)

xiv, 362 pages ; 24 cm.

"This is not an autobiography. God forbid!"--Back cover.

"I'd like to think Tibetan Peach isn't a memoir either, although it waddles and quacks enough like a memoir"--Back cover.

"Absolutely true stories I've been telling the women in my life"--Back cover.

"Novelist Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels -- including Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, B is for Beer and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates -- provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, pulsating with strong social and philosophical undercurrents, his irreverent classics have introduced countless readers to natural born hitchhiking cowgirls, born-again monkeys, a philosophizing can of beans, exiled royalty, and problematic redheads. In Tibetan Peach Pie, Robbins turns that unparalleled literary sensibility inward, stitching together stories of his unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his globetrotting adventures -- told in his unique voice that combines the sweet and sly, the spiritual and earthy. The grandchild of two Baptist preachers, Robbins would become over the course of half a century a poet-interruptus, an air force weatherman, a radio dj, an art-critic-turned-psychedelic-journeyman and a novelist, leading a life as unlikely, magical, and bizarre as those of his quixotic characters. Robbins offers intimate snapshots of Appalachia during the Great Depression, the West Coast during the Sixties psychedelic revolution, international roving before homeland security monitored our travels, and New York publishing when it still relied on trees. Written with the big-hearted comedy and mesmerizing linguistic invention for which he is known, Tibetan Peach Pie is an invitation into his private world. Tom Robbins lives in La Conner, Washington."--Provided by publisher.

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