Praise

Praise for Tom Robbins and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

“Superb.”—New York Post

“Dangerous? Wicked? Forbidden? You bet. . . . Pour yourself a bowl of chips and dig in.”—Daily News, New York

“Robbins is a great writer . . . and definitely a provocative rascal.”—The Tennessean

“Robbins proves again that he can tell a wicked tale . . . [He] has created a spokesman for a world order where the enlightened individual once again reigns. At least individuals who can handle it.”—Kansas City Star

“Like any Robbins tale, it’s deceptively funny yet dead serious in its confrontation with Big Issues: the nature of God and Satan; the hypocrisy of organized religions; the insidious evils of government, big business, and advertising; liberalism vs. conservatism; the condition of humanity in an inhumane world.”—The Sacramento Bee

“For fans of Robbins’s nonlinear playfulness, this story of a CIA agent hooked on sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll offers plenty of abandon and unexpected rewards.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“[Robbins] takes us on his typical rowdy and irreverent ride, surprising us both with the story he tells and with the way he tells it . . . may be Robbins’s best work to date.”—The Richmond Times Dispatch

“Robbins is still the Houdini of unchained similes and metaphors.”—Detroit Free Press

“Ingenious . . . Tom Robbins writes operas chock full of mind-altering images and calls them novels . . . Fans like him for going all-out cosmic, for twisting what seem like unlikely words into brilliant Mobius strips of humor and beauty.”—The Seattle Times

“[Robbins] has written a new novel that pops like a dogwood in springtime . . . it will do everything to delight those who realize they need a jolt from his cosmic jumper cables every so often.”—Philadelphia News

“The father (in this century) of all nose-thumbers . . . [Robbins] is also the inspiration for disreputable treaders of the line between thriller and literature.”—Los Angeles Times

“Robbins balances the comic and the cosmic much as a juggler might balance a kitchen chair on a spoon. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal

“[Robbins] brews another deranged and delightful concoction about a man who does it all for God, country, and the love of women.”—Fortune

“Philosophical screwball comedy.”—People

“Full of little wisdoms, Invalids is the literary equivalent of whitewater-rafting the rapids of Africa’s Zambezi River with the Marx Brothers in tow.”—Entertainment Weekly

“One of the most inventive writers on the planet.”—The Dallas Morning News

“No one writes like Robbins . . . When you look closely at his work, there are virtually no throwaway lines— they seem crafted.”—Tracy Johnson, Salon