Villa Incognito: A Novel - Brossura

Robbins, Tom

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553382195 ISBN 13: 9780553382198

Casa editrice: Bantam, 2004

Riassunto

American MIAs choose to remain missing after the end of the Vietnam War, while four generations of women share a unique link to a mysterious figure from Japanese folklore, in a provocative new tour de force from the author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"Robbins...is to words what Uri Geller is to spoons: He bends sentences into playful escapades....Bottom line: Another bedside attraction."—People

"Brilliantly offbeat satire."—Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"A delectable farce, full of tantalizing secrets and bizarre disguises."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Ebullient, irreverent, hilarious...Villa Incognito is ribald fairy tale meets...Apocalypse Now.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Robbins remains a welcome breath of fresh air in American literature.”—Globe and Mail

“Perhaps [the] greatest book from Robbins...phantasmagorical, richly layered, utterly hilarious, and unexpectedly poignant.” —Pages

L'autore:

Tom Robbins has been called “a vital natural resource” by The Oregonian, “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world” by the Financial Times of London, and “the most dangerous writer in the world today” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle since 1962.

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• Editore: Bantam
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0553382195
• ISBN 13: 9780553382198
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256