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Wild Ducks Flying Backwards: Book summary and reviews of Wild Ducks Flying Backwards by Tom Robbins
Wild Ducks Flying Backwards SummaryKnown for his meaty seriocomic novels – expansive works
that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow – Tom Robbins has also published
over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His
travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and
thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper's,
from Playboy to the New York Times, High Times, and Life. A generous
sampling, collected here for the first time and including works as diverse
as scholarly art criticism and some decidedly untypical country-music
lyrics, Wild Ducks Flying Backward offers a rare sweeping overview of
the eclectic sensibility of an American original. Wild Ducks Flying Backwards Reviews'The fiction is brief and mostly forgettable. But an essay called "In Defiance of Gravity" starts as a riff on an obscure club and winds up being an ode to the combination of unconventionality and humor that define Robbins's career as a writer.' - PW. The information about Wild Ducks Flying Backwards shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel that the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, please send us a message with the mainstream media reviews that you would like to see added. Tom Robbins Author Biography
Tom Robbins has been called "a vital natural resource" by The
Portland Oregonian, "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists
in the world" by the Financial Times of London, and "the most
dangerous writer in the world today" by Fernanda Pivano of Italy's Corriere
della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle
since 1962. Other books by Tom Robbins at BookBrowse
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