Wild Ducks Flying Backward : The Short Writings of Tom Robbins
By Tom RobbinsKnown for his meaty seriocomic novelsÂ?expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrowÂ?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 HarperÂ?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 PicassoÂ?s Guernica, lamenting the angst-ridden state of contemporary literature, or drooling over tomato sandwiches and a species of womanhood he calls Â?the genius waitress,Â? RobbinsÂ?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Embedded in this primarily journalistic compilation are a couple of short stories, a sheaf of largely unpublished poems, and an off-beat assessment of our divided nation.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, weÂ?re apt to encounter examples of the intently serious playfulness that percolates from the mind of a self-described Â?romantic Zen hedonistÂ? and Â?stray dog in the banquet halls of culture.Â?
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 257 pages
- English
- 0553804510
- 9780553804515
About Tom Robbins
thomas eugene robbins (born july 22, 1936 in blowing rock, north carolina) is an american author. his novels are complex, often wild stories with strong so Read More about Tom Robbins
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