'Tibetan Peach Pie' by Tom Robbins is a memoir that takes readers on a journey through the author's adventurous life, from his humble beginnings in North Carolina during the Great Depression to his rise as a successful fiction writer. Robbins writes with humor, wit, and a cosmic sensibility, blending down-home common sense, jazz riff, and Eastern philosophy to explore the cultural movements of the 60s and 70s. delves into Robbins' experiences with famous personalities like Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, his relationships, experimentation with hallucinogenics, and his search for meaning and adventure.
Tom Robbins' 'Tibetan Peach Pie' is praised for its nostalgic portrayal of the author's childhood, insightful reflections on imagination, and humorous anecdotes. is described as touching, brimming with quotable material, and a wonderful addition to Robbins' body of work. Readers appreciate the author's unique writing style, which combines seriousness, fun, and folly, offering a glimpse into his unconventional life and philosophy.
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Content warnings may include references to drug use (LSD), discussions of mental health in relation to counterculture experiences, and personal relationships that may evoke emotional reactions.
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Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins' legendary memoir-wild tales of his life and times, both at home and around the globe.
Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels-including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates-provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, pulsating with strong social and philosophical undercurrents, his irreverent classics have introduced countless readers to natural born hitchhiking cowgirls, born-again monkeys, a philosophizing can of beans, exiled royalty, and problematic redheads.
In Tibetan Peach Pie, Robbins turns that unparalleled literary sensibility inward, stitching together stories of his unconventional life, from his Appalachian childhood to his globetrotting adventures -told in his unique voice that combines the sweet and sly, the spiritual and earthy. The grandchild of Baptist preachers, Robbins would become over the course of half a century a poet-interruptus, an air force weatherman, a radio dj, an art-critic-turned-psychedelic-journeyman, a world-famous novelist, and a counter-culture hero, leading a life as unlikely, magical, and bizarre as those of his quixotic characters.
Robbins offers intimate snapshots of Appalachia during the Great Depression, the West Coast during the Sixties psychedelic revolution, international roving before homeland security monitored our travels, and New York publishing when it still relied on trees. Written with the big-hearted comedy and mesmerizing linguistic invention for which he is known, Tibetan Peach Pie is an invitation into the private world of a literary legend.
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