Contributions

  • Stookey, Lorena Laura. - Contributor

Publication

1997 - Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

43,000 words, Guess

Page Count

172 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads9574
  • LibraryThing1587020

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3568.O233 Z69 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

People

Tom RobbinsTom Robbins (1936-)

Series Statement

  • Critical companions to popular contemporary writers,

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