Tom Robbins

Skinny Legs and All

Mia Caven

I cant understand for the life of me what this book was about

Summer Stanley

Great book! Wonderfully written and completely engaging. 
Thought-provoking and still completely relevant.

A bit to absurd at times. I got a bit lost but loved the overall message.

Amber Laha

I really couldn't understand what he was trying to say and it was waaaay too bizarre for me. Made me dizzy reading this. Read this several years ago. I give this to Robbins, the book stuck with me.

When an Arab and a Jew open a restaurant across the street from the U.N., a host of tragic and triumphant characters descend on the strange establishment

Sadie Kimbrough

SKINNY LEGS AND ALL: An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations.... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils. Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat. In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel?

Skinny Legs and All

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