Author Tom Robbins, whose novels read like Literary LSD, died on Sunday, filled with amazing characters, fanatical metaphors and anti -agriculture. 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 Half sleeping in Pajama:” “Minds was built to blow up.”
Robbins’s works “even the Coograms get blues,” another attraction on the side of the road “and” still life with Woodpayer “.
The roles of Robbins were far from the wall and around the turn. They included a hutors with a 9 -inch thumbs to get the Blues, “Even the Coogrells, and the Sweat, to love a monastery in” hot climate -related severe housewife ” The peaceful CIA “thin legs and all” was talking about pork and beans, a dirty sock and a nervous talk, a performance artist whose process consisted of impartial movement. –
“What I try to do is to combine fantasy and spirituality, sexuality, humor and poetry into combinations that have never seen in literature,” Robbins said in an interview in January 2000. I had gone. ” Guess when a reader finishes one of my books … I would like to stay in the state to be in the state after a philosophical film or a thankful dead concert.
He was born in the Bluing Rock, North Carolina, and there and grew up in a family in Richmond, Virginia, once described as a “southern baptist version of The Simpson”. At the age of 5, Mother and Virginia developed their written abilities in Washington and Lee University working in a school newspaper with Tom Wolf, which ahead to write “right things” and “Electric Coal Aid Acid Test” Will increase
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 “Tibetan Packet Pai”, “He had set the lock on my tongue box and eliminated my literary prevention.” “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 1971 was the “other attraction of the roadside”, the story of how Jesus was 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 Coogres receives blues”, in which Sisi has made his way into the world of sex, drugs and concepts, making 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 to “thin legs and all”, “the word spreads like a skin disease in the nodeist colony.” In the “Jatarbug Perfume” he described a falling man as going down “as he addressed the special delivery of gravity like Alka’s sack.”
Robbins, who had three children, lived with his wife, Alexa, 70 miles north of Seattle in Washington’s La Conner.
