Still Life with Woodpecker

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Tom Robbins

A startlingly original novel from the New York Times bestselling author hailed by Financial Times as “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world”“[Tom] Robbins’s comic philosophical musings reveal a flamboyant genius.”—PeopleStill Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads. “Robbins is a fabulous storyteller.”—The Boston Globe

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Author

Tom Robbins

Pages

288

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published Date

2003-06-17

ISBN

0553897942 9780553897944

Ratings

Google: 4

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"Tom Robbins is a master of blending humor and big thought provoking life themes in a way that makes them seem like no big deal. His stories never fail to pull me in."

CaitVD

"I love redheads too 🥰"

Carol Blakley

"When I was a drug-addled poet I liked this book. Years later, clean, sober and jaded, I couldn't make it past the first chapter. Funny, that."

Despondent Hull

"Tom Robbins definitely has a different (and drug-enhanced view of life). But even sober, his works pull me in. This is an ode to redheads, bad decisions, the strangeness of love, and the search for symbolism and magic in our lives. Some of the lines in this book linger with me. "We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.""