Books

May, 1990

Spring is the perfect season for Tom Robbins' new novel, Skinny Legs and All (Bantam)--a book filled with youthful erotic energy, boundless fanciful imagination and a playful sense of humor about even the most profound matters. Robbins leapfrogs from fertility rites to the meaning of art, from Middle Eastern politics to the origins of religion with comic ease and dazzling verbal prestidigitation.Plot summaries never do Robbins justice, but the main plot of Skinny Legs and All concerns a young ar...