Tom Robbins

Switters, an anarchist pacifist who works for the government and carries a gun, chases after his teenage stepsister, only to become madly enamored of a nun a decade older than him, in this hilarious new novel by the author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

No novelist sees the world in all its mesmerising contradictions like Tom Robbins, the New York Times bestselling author of Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. In his biggest novel yet, Robbins explores, challenges, mocks and celebrates virtually every major aspect of our millennial era In Fierce Invalids From Hot Climates the fearless, inimitable and always entertaining Tom Robbins brings on stage the most complex and compelling character he has ever created. 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 robust bon vivant to can be as squeamish as any fop; a man, who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school age stepsister (and later becomes enamoured of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there's nothing remotely wishy washy about Switters. He doesn't merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol.Robbins has said that throughout the writing of Fierce Invalids From Hot Climates he was guided by the advice of Julia Child: "Learn to handle hot things. Keep your knives sharp. Above all, have a good time."

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Probably the 4th or 5th time I've read this book, it's one of my all time favourites. I hadn't read it in at least a decade, probably longer. Hilarious, rambunctious, dizzying and perfectly wonderful. 

Laura Hilliger

Dana Kraft

Once I learned to skim over the never ending metaphorical asides and descriptions , it’s wasn’t a bad story.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

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