Tom Robbins

Tibetan Peach Pie: a True Account of an Imaginative Life Tom Robbins

Publisher Marketing: Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon 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 "Still Life with Woodpecker," "Jitterbug Perfume," 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 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, a world-famous novelist, and a counter-culture hero, 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 1960s 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 the private world of a literary legend." Review Citations: Audio File 10/01/2014 pg. 34 (EAN 9781483004594, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2014 pg. 72 (EAN 9780062267405, Hardcover) Booklist 03/15/2014 pg. 44 (EAN 9780062267405, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 03/24/2014 (EAN 9780062267405, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 04/15/2014 pg. 84 (EAN 9780062267405, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2014 (EAN 9780062267405, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 05/27/2014 (EAN 9780062267405, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 12/12/2014 (EAN 9780062267405, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Robbins, Tom Tom Robbins was born in North Carolina in 1932 and raised in Virginia. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he moved to Seattle to do graduate work at the University of Washington. His internationally bestselling works include Still Life With Woodpecker, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Villa Incognito, and B Is For Beer. Robbins lives with his wife, Alexa D'Avalon, and their dog, Blini Tomato Titanium, in Washington State.