{"product_id":"fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates-9781842430286","title":"Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwitters 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. Yet there is nothing limp about Switters. He doesn't merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. As we follow Switters across four continents Robbins explores, challenges and celebrates virtually every major aspect of our mercurial era.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs many readers well know, to describe a Tom Robbins plot does not begin to describe a Tom Robbins novel. The internationally acclaimed best-selling author is as opposed to story summations as J.D.Salinger, but it is revealing perhaps to learn what he claims to have influenced his writing of Fierce Invalids:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book was inspired by an entry from Bruce Chatwin's journal, by a CIA agent met in Southeast Asia, by the mystery surrounding the lost prophecy of the Virgin of Fatima, by the increasing evidence that the interplay of opposites is the engine that runs the universe, and by embroidered memories of old Terry and the Pirates comic books.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea thoroughly postmodern guru * Independent On Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eIn his seventh, and perhaps most complex novel to date, Robbins shines as brilliantly as he has in the past...superb current social commentary * The New York Post *","brand":"Bedford Square Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042934096215,"sku":"9781842430286","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781842430286.jpg?v=1750956294","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fierce-invalids-home-from-hot-climates-9781842430286","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}