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| Title | : | Wild Ducks Flying Backward |
| Author | : | Tom Robbins |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | August 29th 2006 by Bantam (first published 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Short Stories. Humor. Writing. Essays. Poetry. Literature. American |
Tom Robbins
Paperback | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 3.55 | 6117 Users | 297 Reviews
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Known for his meaty seriocomic novels, Tom Robbins’s shorter work has appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy to the New York Times. Collected here for the first time in paperback, the essays, articles, observations—and even some untypical country-music lyrics—offer a rare overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original.Whether rocking with the Doors, depoliticizing Picasso’s Guernica, lamenting the angst-ridden state of contemporary literature, or drooling over tomato sandwiches and a species of womanhood he calls “the genius waitress,” Tom Robbins’s briefer writings exhibit the 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 Embedded in this primarily journalistic compilation are brand-new short stories, a sheaf of largely unpublished poems, and an offbeat assessment of our divided nation. Wherever you open Wild Ducks Flying Backward, you’ll encounter the serious playfulness that percolates from the mind of a self-described “romantic Zen hedonist” and “stray dog in the banquet halls of culture.”
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| Original Title: | Wild Ducks Flying Backward |
| ISBN: | 0553383531 (ISBN13: 9780553383539) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.55 From 6117 Users | 297 ReviewsDiscuss About Books Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Bite-size Tom Robbins. These fascinating stories vary and vary and varyjust like the man himself, and his books. A fun way to dig in to some shorter TR fiction.I've been a big fan of some of Robbins's older fiction, so it was interesting to see his nonfiction pieces. As with any collection, some are great and some are so-so, but he always has a fresh perspective and says what he really thinks. I like that!"Personally, I define politics as the ambition to preside over property and make other people's decisions for them. Politics, in other words, is an organized, publicly sanctioned amplification of the infantile itch to always have one's own way." (from
One of the reasons I adore Tom Robbins' books is that I can never tell where he is going with something, but I'm sure it will intertwine in a way that makes me feel like I should have known all along. He is pulling the wool over my eyes, and I'm blissfully blind and savoring every paragraph until the conclusion. This book doesn't take that journey as it's a collection of his short writings. The travel writing is short and doesn't invoke the images of the places like it does with images of the
Having read all of Tom Robbins other books (except for "B is for Beer"!), mostly quite a few years ago, I was hoping to get a reminder of why I liked his writing. And this provides that -- the literary gymnastics he applies to his writing make it as fresh and awe-inspiring as always. I found, though, that this book of short pieces really was more like a scratch-and-sniff version of his writing - you get the essence but you don't get anywhere near a complete story. This made me realize that
Tom Robbins might be the very best writer in modern times. I wanted to memorize every sentence and regurgitate them here so that you could be as impressed as I was listening to him read his own short works. This is the one phrase I can remember that is from a short article praising the letter Z: "alphabetical ants' nest". That phrase rolled around my head for a while, and although the words themselves are not brilliant, it is the combination of the words and the context in which he used them.
I thought this was a novel or, at most, a book of short stories. It is neither. Instead, it is a collection of the author's various published nonfiction works, from travel articles to celebrity tributes to who knows what else. While I might enjoy these short pieces if they appeared in a magazine somewhere (where I'd be pleasantly surprised to find the name Tom Robbins on the masthead), a whole book of them made me weary.If nothing else, at least it cured me of the notion of publishing my own
Funny, light-hearted, sardonically witty and bursting with brilliance and playful wordplay, Tom Robbins is your wake-up call against the humdrum and the mechanical noise of the daily bump and grind of a eat-sleep-work kind of life. While adulthood has made me more skeptical of his concept of freedom and how it will manage its way to this capitalistic world, and all the courageous and arduous demands that come with the package, he rides the wave of life with an immense humor and wisdom that makes
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