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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Robbins, Tom

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HumorMystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 055337933X
ISBN13: 9780553379334
Publisher: Bantam
Published: May 29 2001
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.29 Depth: 8.23
Language: English
A deranged and delightful concoction (Fortune) about a CIA agent with uniquely peculiar proclivities, from the New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Woodpecker

Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals.--The San Diego Union-Tribune

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 break dancer--at the top of his game. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it's a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life.

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