Another Roadside Attraction (Trade Paperback)
What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if “the Corpse” on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is—what does that portend for the future f western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as...
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What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if “the Corpse” on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is—what does that portend for the future f western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as popular entertainment and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tell us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out. In the process, this stunningly original seriocomic thriller is fully capable of simultaneously eating a literary hot dog and eroding the borders of the mind.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553349481 (0553349481)
ASIN: 553349481
Publish date: May 2003
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 337
Edition language: English
Trite bullshit. Now I have to think of a nice way to tell my dad that this book is fucking awful and a waste of time. There were several segments of lovely prose, good ideas and provoking thoughts, but it was all buried in a nonsense stew of free-association and self-indulgent cheap philosophy with ...
Oh Tom, where do you get these wacky ideas?Funny?-checkA little sexual taboo?-checkJesus?-checkSeems like a no brainer, read it, enjoy it.
oh, tom robbins.this is his first book, which i think is important to mention for a few reasons. first of all, i find it really interesting that he was able to jump so successfully into such an unusual style of writing. i don't find this book as bizarre as others of his, but to call it unusual is ...