Author Tom Robbins, whose novels read like Literary LSD, who were filled with amazing characters, fanatic metaphors and anti -agriculture, passed away on Sunday. He was 92 years old.
Robbins’s death was announced by his wife, Alexa Robbins on Facebook. The post did not cite any reason.
He said he was surrounded by his family and loyal pets. In these difficult last chapters, he was brave, funny and cute, “Alexa Rubinz wrote.” He asked if people read his books and remember him. “
Robbins included the hippie sensitivity of young people who started in the early 1970s with books in which they called “serious playfulness” and had a great philosophy of a mandate whose pursuit as foreigners as possible. Must be done in ways. As he wrote Frog is sleeping half in pajama“The brains were made to blow up.”
Includes the works of Robbins Even the Caugers gets bluesFor, for, for,. The side of the road another attractive And Life with Vodpicar still.
The roles of Robbins were far from the wall and around the turn. They had a hutcker with Sisi Henshav, 9 -inch thumbs Even the Caugers gets bluesAnd Switzer, peaceful CIA operators in love with a monastery Incorrectly wrong home from the hot climate. Thin legs and all Talking about pork and beans, a dirty sock and turning towards Norman, a performance artist whose process contains neutral movement.
In an interview, Robbins said, “Whatever I try to do, other than other things, it is to combine fantasy and spirituality, sex, humor and poetry in the combinations that have never been seen in literature. “ January Magazine in 2000. “And I guess when a reader finishes a book of mine … I would like to stay in the state that he will be present after a philosophical movie or a thankful dead concert.”
He was born in the Bluong Rock in the North Carolina city, and grew up in a family in Richmond, Virginia, once described as a “southern baptist version of a” southern baptist version. ” Simpson. Robbins said he was presenting stories from his mother at the age of 5 and prepared his written abilities at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, working on a school newspaper with Tom Wolf, who would move forward in writing. – The right things And Electric Coal Aid Acid Test.
From newspapers to novels
Robbins worked as editor, reporter and critic for newspapers in Richmond and Seattle, where he went to seek a more progressive environment than the South offer in the 1960s. He made written episode while reviewing the 1967 concert through doors.
He wrote in the 2014 memorandum, “He had set the locks on my tongue box and eliminated my literary prevention.” Tibati patch pi. “When I read these paragraphs when I wrote at midnight, I found out an ease of expression, freedom of expression, simultaneous wild and exact syntax.”
Then there was the 1971 talk The side of the road another attractiveHow did Jesus’ unconscious, unmanned body be stolen from the Vatican and ended on a hot dog stand in the northwest of the United States. Five years later, his second book, Even the Caugers gets bluesIn which Sisi drew his way into the world of sex, drugs and pictures. He made it a favorite of a sect.
His novels often played the lead role of strong women, which made them especially popular among women readers. And when he appealed to the youth culture, the literary establishment never heated Robbins. Critics said that his plot was formulated and his style exceeded it.
Robbins wrote his books on a legal pad in the long hand, in which only two pages were produced in a day and nothing was already made. The end of an attempt to use the electrical typewriter ended with a piece of wood.
He worked hard on the choice of words and said that “he likes to remind readers and the author equally that the language is not frosting, this is a cake.” As a result, his work was flowing from wild -eyed metaphors.
He wrote, “The word spread like a skin disease in Nodist colony Thin legs and all. I Jitterbug aroma He described a falling man as going down “as Alka’s sack addressed special delivery of gravity.”
Robbins, who had three children, lived with his wife, Alexa, 70 miles north of Seattle in Washington’s La Conner.
