Tom Robbins
Subtitle: a critical companion
By: Catherine E. Hoyser and Lorena Laura Stookey.
Contributors: Stookey, Lorena Laura.
Series: Critical companions to popular contemporary writers,
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Robbins, Tom -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: This is the first book-length study of the popular novelist Tom Robbins. Whimsy and humor characterize Robbins' work, but style and language are the keystones. Hoyser and Stookey show how Robbins deftly uses style and humor to depict the absurdities and injustices of our world. His novels constantly challenge perceptions of the world that people automatically label as "normal." His fiction criticizes the complacency of humans in a world becoming increasingly alienated from nature and the joy of life.

In addition to a critical analysis of each of his novels, the study contains biographical material never before published and the first full-length bibliography on Robbins, including a bibliography of reviews of his fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-165) and index.