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An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations…
It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins Tom Robbins's gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative new novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine—while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils.
Skinny Legs and All deals, in Robbins's audacious manner, with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat.
In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself.
Or was it Jezebel?
An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. . . . It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which Robbins spins this alarmingly provocative book. In his audacious style, the bestselling author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues deals with the most sensitive issues of the day. First time in trade paper.
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Sharon Pesonen
reviewed Skinny Legs and All on March 30, 2020 Skinny Legs and All
Skinny Legs and All is an iridescent firework of words…
This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter, where Delilah practiced for her beautician's license, the room in which Salome dropped the seventh veil while dancing the dance of ultimate cognition, skinny legs and all.
Skinny Legs and All is a variegated mural of religions…
Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then, hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim.
Skinny Legs and All is a pied throng of weird characters full of intrigues…
"A bladder, a blade of straw, and a shoe went to chop wood in the forest. They came to a river and did not know how to cross it. The shoe said to the bladder: 'Bladder, let us swim across it on you.' The bladder said: 'No, shoe, let the straw blade instead stretch itself from shore to shore, and we will walk over it.' The blade of straw stretched itself across the water; the shoe walked on it and the straw broke. The shoe fell into the water, and the bladder laughed and laughed until it burst." The Bladder, the Straw, and the Shoe - a Russian fairy tale
Echoing this folksy masterpiece three animated objects - Spoon, Dirty Sock and Can o' Beans - adventure dangerously all the way through the story while Painted Stick - an ancient symbol of Lingam - and Conch Shell - an antique emblem of Yoni - are their spiritual leaders.
The conch shell is the voice of Buddha, the birth-bed of Aphrodite, the horn that drives away all demons and draws lost mariners home from the sea. Colored by the moon, shaped by the primal geometry, it is the original dreamboat, the sacred submarine that carries fertility to its rendezvous with poetry.
Similar to gods fiction moves in a mysterious way.
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