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Genre/Form: | Satire Action and adventure fiction Fiction Adventure fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Robbins, Tom. Fierce invalids home from hot climates. New York : Bantam Books, ©2000 (OCoLC)606282776 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tom Robbins |
ISBN: | 055337933X 9780553379334 |
OCLC Number: | 53381356 |
Notes: | "Bantom hardcover edition published May 2000. Bantam trade paperback edition / June 2001. Bantam trade paperback reissue / May 2003."--Titlepage verso. |
Description: | 445 pages ; 21 cm |
Responsibility: | Tom Robbins. |
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Abstract:
"Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government, a pacifist who carries a gun, a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy, a cyberwhiz who hates computers, a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn't merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. And as we dog Switters's strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the 'true' Third Secret of fatima, we experience Tom Robbins-- that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal breakdancer-- at the top of his game."--Back cover.
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