Title: Tom Robbins
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
People: Tom Robbins, Tom Robbins (1936-)
LC classification: PS3568.O233 Z69 1997