Skinny Legs and All

Skinny Legs and All

Infobox Book
name = Skinny Legs and All
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image_caption = Cover of first edition (hardcover)
author = Tom Robbins
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Bantam Books
release_date = 1990
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 422 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-553-05775-8
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"Skinny Legs and All", novelist Tom Robbins' fifth book, was published in 1990 by Bantam Books. As are all of Robbins' creations, it is a lyrical and complex work weaving disparate and seemingly unrelated themes into one narrative.

Plot introduction

The opening scene of "Skinny Legs" finds newlyweds Ellen Cherry Charles and Randolph 'Boomer' Petway III driving cross country in a large roast turkey. From there, Robbins touches on topics as diverse as art and artists, biblical history, the longstanding Arab-Jewish feud, eschatology, and other Robbins' staples such as sex, religion, and politics.

The reader is introduced to typical array of off-beat and whimsical characters, including the estranged couple of artist/waitress Ellen Cherry and welder/accidental artist Randolph "Boomer" Petway, Spike Cohen and Roland Abu Hadee (a Jew and an Arab who co-own a Middle-Eastern restaurant across from the UN building in New York), fundamentalist preacher Buddy Winkler, a doe-eyed belly dancer named Salome, Detective Jackie Shaftoe, Raoul the libidinous doorman turned rock star, art galleries owner named Ultima Sommerville, a mysterious performance artist known as Turn Around Norman and Verlin and Patsy Charles, Ellen Cherry's parents. A host of inanimate objects (Can o' Beans, Dirty Sock, Spoon, Painted Stick and Conch Shell) also plays a key role in the novel, and even biblical harlot Jezebel and Dan Quayle make cameo appearances.

Trivia

* Australian rock band Wolfmother took their name from the novel. [ [http://www.mtv.com/news/yhif/wolfmother/ MTV News] ]

External links

* [http://www.aftrlife.com The Aftrlife: A Tom Robbins Playground]

Release details

*First edition, Hardcover - ISBN 0-553-05775-8, published on April 1, 1990 by Bantam Books
*First Paperback edition - ISBN 0-553-28969-1, published on ?, 1990 by Bantam Books

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