
Wild Ducks Flying Backward
The Short Writings of Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins
Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from Esquire to Harper’s, from Playboy to the New York Times, High Times, and Life. A generous sampling, collected here for the first time and including works as diverse as scholarly art criticism and some decidedly untypical country-music lyrics, Wild Ducks Flying Backward offers a rare sweeping overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original.
Whether he is rocking with the Doors, depoliticizing Picasso’s Guernica, lamenting the angst-ridden state of contemporary literature, or drooling over tomato sandwiches and a species of womanhood he calls “the genius waitress,” Robbins’s briefer writings often exhibit the same five traits that perhaps best characterize his novels: an imaginative wit, a cheerfully brash disregard for convention, a sweetly nasty eroticism, a mystical but keenly observant eye, and an irrepressible love of language.
Embedded in this primarily journalistic compilation are a couple of short stories, a sheaf of largely unpublished poems, and an off-beat assessment of our divided nation. And wherever we open Wild Ducks Flying Backward, we’re apt to encounter examples of the intently serious playfulness that percolates from the mind of a self-described “romantic Zen hedonist” and “stray dog in the banquet halls of culture.”
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Critic reviews
“A single sentence from Robbins is worth the price of admission.” –Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)
“Hilarious.”—New York Times Book Review
“A treat. Robbins is fearless, original, mind-expanding and funny as hell.”—San Diego Union-Tribune
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To me, the content (regardless of narrator) is absolutely first rate. I have only become familiar with Tom Robbins fictions in the pats few years, but found in them shadows of a kindred spirit in the relentless pursuit of liberty (and all the trimmings). This book offers the Robbins fiction admirer a look into the sources of ideas and themes played upon in his many fiction works. It also offers some new and personal views of the author himself.
Tom if you are reading, thanks for crafting so many pleasant sentence, and thanks for helping me to read, listen to, and therefore crystallize, ideas that have from time to time clanged around my own soul.
I am in love
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It’s my yummy zone in the funny bone
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So long Tom!
Almost had me hooked...
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If you could sum up Wild Ducks Flying Backward in three words, what would they be?
Great stories but please Audible: attach titles to chapters! Very frustrating to try and navigate a collection of short stories, essays, etc. without a table of contents...Great stories Why no contents, Audible?
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Stories that tell a story.
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So disappointing
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Does not compare to his others.
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Disappointed
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