Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Sharon B’s request to combine 9 books, including Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Sunday, August 2 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn't merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. And as we dog Switters's strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the "true" Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins -- that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer -- at the top of his game. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it's a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Tom Robbins: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Friday, July 17 2009.

• then naked parrot looked like a human fetus spliced onto a kosher chicken.

Sharon B submitted a request to combine 9 books, including Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Saturday, July 11 2009.