Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

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Tom Robbins: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (Paperback, 2002, No Exit Press)

Paperback, 386 pages

Published May 1, 2002 by No Exit Press.

ISBN:
978-1-84243-036-1
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When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you--an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker--are convinced that you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you're going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses. Over these fateful three days, you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot-card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space. This is, after all, a Tom Robbins novel--and the author has never been in finer form.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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The setup is standard Robbins: a smart, successful, independent-but-inhibited woman finds sexual and spiritual enlightenment from an oversexed, crass-but-sagacious older man who's played by society's rules and decided to seek happiness elsewhere. A handful of forgettable supporting characters come and go, displaying plenty of quirks but no substance. The plot goes nowhere, the whole thing is way too long, the main characters are unrelatable at best and detestable at worst, and the whole novel is surprisingly joyless - or maybe too self-consciously joyful - for a Robbins book. Even the one-off witticisms that usually save his bad novels are missing here.

Read Jitterbug Perfume or Skinny Legs and All instead.

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