{"product_id":"tibetan-peach-pie-a-true-account-of-an-imaginative-life-isbn-9780062267405","title":"Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eInternationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including \u003cem\u003eStill Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates\u003c\/em\u003e—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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobbins 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, \u003cem\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/em\u003e is an invitation into the private world of a literary legend.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eInternationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins's long-awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Robbins's warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels–including \u003cem\u003eEven Cowgirls Get the Blues\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnother Roadside Attraction\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJitterbug Perfume\u003c\/em\u003e–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 hitchhiking cowgirls, born-again monkeys, a philosophizing can of beans, exiled royalty, and problematic redheads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/em\u003e, Robbins turns that unparalleled literary sensibility inward, weaving together stories of his unconventional life–from his Appalachian childhood to his globe-trotting adventures–told in his unique voice, which 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, a soldier, a meteorologist, a radio DJ, an art-critic-turned-psychedelic-journeyman, a world-famous novelist, and a counterculture hero, leading a life as unlikely, magical, and bizarre as those of his quixotic characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobbins 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the big-hearted comedy and mesmerizing linguistic invention for which Robbins is known, \u003cem\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/em\u003e is an invitation into the private world of a literary legend.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Robbins continues to embody Zen coolness and bohemian charm.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Robbins carries us along a magical wonder tour in this high-flying, Zen koan-like, and cinematic tour of some of the episodes in his journey through space and time. ” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Readers] will enjoy this peek into the intelligently goofy and always fertile mind of this inventive writer... a fitting cap to a sui generis career, equally satisfying in short installments or read straight through.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e is vintage Robbins. It’s pyrotechnic in language, labyrinthine in logic, daunting in voice, threaded with his wonderfully esoteric wit… Authentically charming… profound. ” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Readers will enjoy immersing themselves in [Robbins’] adventuresome life, from his remarkably unsupervised childhood to his free and easy adulthood. \u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e… is a welcome antidote to our current era of helicopter parenting and disciplined conformity and rules, rules, rules.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fans of Tom Robbins, the person, the novelist, the introspective jokester and the gifted storyteller, will love this book. It truly is a gem.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortland Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A perfect bookend to Tom Robbins’ oeuvre, an opportunity to finally catch a glimpse behind this magician’s curtain.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Haphazardly ricocheting-but without exception entertaining.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookish.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Robbins writes beautifully… In works of pure imagination, like his novels, his style suits the material… A damned satisfying trip to the moon.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSanta Fe Pasa Tiempo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“At his best, Robbins writes prose that flows like he’s having a blast putting it all down as fast as he can think it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“He’s never lost that voice, and it’s the star of this memoir. If you’re a fan, you might have dreamed of getting to meet him, not just for a moment at a book signing but at some laid-back, intimate dinner party where you and he and a gaggle of supporting cast would eat perfect tomato sandwiches and sip Champagne under a starry sky while Robbins told story after crazy story, until the sun came up. You’ll have to get your own perfect tomatoes and bubbly, but \u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e dishes up the main course.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTampa Bay Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“He’s never lost that voice, and it’s the star of this memoir.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTampa Bay Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e is] constantly buoyed by verbal prestidigitation that works on readers like the bubbles in champagne, teasing and urging them to engage their own imaginations in the game… At its best it’s heady stuff… infectious, giddy-making. Robbins is king of the sidewinder simile, the mixologist’s metaphor. No other popular writer of our time depends as he does on pure verbal dazzle, or delivers as reliably on the deal.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Robbins is king of the sidewinder simile, the mixologist’s metaphor. No other popular writer of our time depends as he does on pure verbal dazzle, or delivers as reliably on the deal.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Charmingly offbeat… unconventionally literary. [Robbins] excels at compositional oddity, brandishing the creative and the humorous… [\u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e] is an amusement park of allusions and madcap stories.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Californian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For the lover of words and wordplay, humor, and creative and high flying imagination, there is no contemporary writer any better.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Beautiful... Robbins has never met a pun, a blissfully crooked analogy, a magician’s bit of verbal trickery that he didn’t love… He knows words the way a pool hustler knows chalk.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR Books (Online Review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As in his many novels, [\u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e] is buoyed by a palpable sense of the fun Robbins is having with language, in all of its rhythmic and poetic possibilities.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiographile Biographile\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wacky, wonder-filled… The fiction master of our times, Thomas Pynchon, once called Robbins a brain-dazzling ‘world-class storyteller.’ Now in his 80s, he still is, even in telling his own story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today (Online Review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hallucinatory and conversational… intertwined with many fun and interesting tales... This is what happens when you let Tom run.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you’ve read any of his quirky best-sellers, such as \u003ci\u003eEven Cowgirls Get the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, you’ll scarf down this account of Robbins’ Appalachian childhood, his life on the wild, wonderful West Coast in the 1960’s and his world travels.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAARP Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Some small part of \u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e is indeed written in the verbal equivalent of “a ruffled pink shirt” and “bow tie with colored sequins” but if I have to tell you how pleasurable a book can be when you just might happen to turn a page and come upon a description of William F. Buckley Jr. as the “emperor penguin of the American right,” then \u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e is not for you.  If I don’t have to tell you, you’ll find Robbins’ memoir that refuses to call itself a memoir one of the solid, if minor, pleasures of summer reading season’s onset.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuffalo News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“…appealing… The story of how Tom Robbins became Tom Robbins is a pretty good one, and in relating it, he’s written his best book in many years. “Tibetan Peach Pie” should be sold in one of those marijuana vending machines now extant in Colorado. Like them, it provides an afternoon’s affordable buzz.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The story of how Tom Robbins became Tom Robbins is a pretty good one, and in relating it, he’s written his best book in many years.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e, [Robbins] warns us, can’t be considered a ‘normal memoir,’ as its author hasn’t lived a ‘normal life…’ No one, however, comes to a Tom Robbins book for a bracing dose of normality. We come for the iconoclastic humor, the bizarre imaginative leaps, the constantly startling prose. Robbins has always been an elegant, if eccentric, stylist. His sentences are rhythmic, seductive and filled with images from some celestial left field that only he can access. Mostly, we come to experience the peculiar character of Robbins’s mind - a mind marked by an endless search for the ‘crazy wisdom’ that has animated his fiction and shaped his life... \u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e is a late, welcome gift from a philosopher-novelist who continues to believe in the transformative qualities of ‘novelty, beauty, mischief and mirth’ - qualities apparent on every page of this lively, large-hearted book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e is a late, welcome gift from a philosopher-novelist who continues to believe in the transformative qualities of ‘novelty, beauty, mischief and mirth’ - qualities apparent on every page of this lively, large-hearted book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e is a gift to his fans, the story of a man who had the sense to follow where his imagination led… How lucky for his readers that we got to tag along for the ride.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The author of such off-kilter bestsellers as \u003ci\u003eStill Life with Woodpecker\u003c\/i\u003e has written a rollicking reminiscence of his Appalachian upbringing, his spiral through the psychedelic ‘60s, and his unconventional path to literary stardom.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Memoir or not, the form suits Robbins’s digressive style, philosophical musings, and self-deprecating humor. Each piece stands on its own, but when read side by side they develop into a powerful argument about magic and the necessity of imaginative, interior worlds.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Perhaps the only aspect more impressive than Robbins’s ability to imbue a lifetime of interesting anecdotes with an additional layer of introspection is his trademark style [...]earthy and conversational yet simultaneously intellectual. Fans and newcomers alike will guffaw and marvel at this most extraordinary life - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the great bawdy, boogie-woogieing American novelists of our time unspools the astonishing breadth of his own life.  An uproarious, big-hearted shaggy-dog memoir… [\u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e] bursts with enough joie de vivre to bewitch even the most present-shock-imprisoned 28-year-old and to snag the rest of us with Robbins’ far-out, feel-good sensibility and trademark helical, world-happy prose.  … Robbins constructs scenes from his past like a series of snapshots with profound depths of field.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eTibetan Peach Pie\u003c\/i\u003e] bursts with enough joie de vivre to bewitch even the most present-shock-imprisoned 28-year-old and to snag the rest of us with Robbins’ far-out, feel-good sensibility and trademark helical, world-happy prose.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889192792293,"sku":"NP9780062267405","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062267405.jpg?v=1730230722","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/tibetan-peach-pie-a-true-account-of-an-imaginative-life-isbn-9780062267405","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}