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  • Tibetan Peach Pie

  • A True Account of an Imaginative Life
  • By: Tom Robbins
  • Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
  • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (43 ratings)

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Tibetan Peach Pie

By: Tom Robbins
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
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Summary

Internationally best-selling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild 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.

©2014 Thomas E. Robbins (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers
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Brilliantly narrated.

As with all Tom Robbins novels this was full of wisdom, wonder and mad magic. Brilliantly narrated, sweet, smart and incredibly funny.

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Classic Robbins

Highly engaging and richly entertaining story with excellent narration (what a voice!) by Keith Szarabajka

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'Buffalo silver!'

Thoroughly Tom Robbins and so thoroughly enjoyable. Thanks for taking us on another journey. Magic.

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what laugh aloud humour!

love this book and the author can do no wrong. funny poinent, profound, all wrapped up in a prose that is so stunningly sharp it will blow your mind.

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An insight into the mind of Tom Robbins

Fascinating though not enough detail on the writing of any of his books beyond the first two.

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