Bantam, 1990-04-01. First Edition. paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 1x6x9. Bantam, 1990; first edition with full number line; 422pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to corners of purple and peach quarter-cloth boards; gilt titling remains bright and bold. Ends of spine bumped. Toning to spine of unclipped jacket, else very good. Minor soiling to text block. Text is also very good and interior appears free of previous owner markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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SKINNY LEGS AND ALL:An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations....It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils.Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat.In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel?From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: The Book House in Dinkytown (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 316112
Title: Skinny Legs and All
Author: Robbins, Tom
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0553057758
ISBN 13: 9780553057751
Publisher: Bantam
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1990-04-01
Size: 1x6x9
X weight: 16 oz

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