5/27/2023 0 Comments Bandaloop jitterbug perfume![]() The ostensible "author" frequently interrupts the stories and, although the characters are more bizarre than Salinger's, they tend like his to be highly talkative, much given to self-analysis, lengthy confessions, and populist philosophical speculation. ![]() Although Kerouac is the only author Robbins mentions in his novels, these more nearly resemble Salinger's Glass Family stories. He allows himself to be described only as "a student of art and religion" who "dropped out" to write fiction in a Washington State fishing village. Like Salinger-and Thomas Pynchon, who in an uncharacteristic move has publicly praised Robbins's second novel-the author lives in seclusion. Salinger and Jack Kerouac in the 1950s to become a cult hero among disaffected college undergraduates. Although practically ignored by academic critics, except as an eccentric regionalist, Tom Robbins with his first two novels became the only American novelist since J.D. ![]()
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