Another Roadside Attraction

tom robbins

What if the Second Coming didn't quite come off as advertised? What if "the corpse" on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is - what does that portend for the future of western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as popular entertainment, and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tell us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out. In the process, this stunningly original seriocomic thriller is fully capable of simultaneously eating a literary hot dog and eroding the borders of the mind.

Genres fictionhumornovelsliteraturemagical realismcontemporaryamericanliterary fictionphilosophycomedy

366 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1971

Literary awards

washington state book award,

Places

seattle washington,

This edition

Format: 366 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2004 by No Exit Press
ISBN: 9781842431290
ASIN: 1842431293
Language: English

About the author

tom robbins

Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas"). Robbins lived in La Conner, Washington from 1970, where he wrote nine of his books. His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. His last work, published in 2014, was Tibetan Peach Pie, a self-declared "un-memoir".