{"product_id":"skinny-legs-and-all","title":"Skinny Legs and All","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author hailed by \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003eas \"one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Hilarious.\"--\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A euphoric wonderwork.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Flat-out fabulous.\"--\u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it's the axis around which \u003ci\u003eSkinny Legs and All \u003c\/i\u003espins, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSkinny Legs and All\u003c\/i\u003e deals, in Tom Robbins's audacious manner, with 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the gloriously inventive 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?","brand":"Bantam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947249205479,"sku":"9780553377880","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_c5d77b03-401b-4233-9f2c-df4169a0e1f0.jpg?v=1775485009","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/skinny-legs-and-all","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}