- Hardcover: 125 pages
- Publisher: Ecco Press (May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0061687278
- ISBN-13: 978-0061687273
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 14.6 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,425,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'One of the wildest and most entertaining writers in the world' --Financial Times
'Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain' --Thomas Pynchon
'Impossibly imaginative' --Vanity Fair
'One of the bravest writers in America.' --Chicago Tribune
'whimsical, absurdist' --Billy Heller, New York Post --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
'Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain' --Thomas Pynchon
'Impossibly imaginative' --Vanity Fair
'One of the bravest writers in America.' --Chicago Tribune
'whimsical, absurdist' --Billy Heller, New York Post --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Tom Robbins' first fiction in five years (and perhaps his most audacious ever), B Is for Beer explores various aspects of beer culture - ancient, modern, and otherworldly; brutal, infantile and divine - and dramatizes the surprising things that happen when the life of a feisty nursery school kid named Gracie Perkel intersects with each. Billed by Robbins as `the first children's book about beer,' this inspired work taps into the barrel of life's existential mysteries and is truly meant to sit proudly with his other novels in grown-up literature sections.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I am a massive Tom Robbins fan! Jitterbug, Skinny legs and Even cowgirls get the blues are among my favourite books that I've ever read. That is to say I had high expectations for this book. I'm left thinking that I must have missed the point but I really don't think I did. The only good thing was that it was very short. Please don't let this put you off reading another one of his books as they are fabulous-just don't bother with this one. And sorry Tom if you ever read this!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If this had been the first of Tom Robbins books i had read it would have been the last. I felt ripped off. I have read all his novels to date and eagerly awaited this one. Think his imagination has deserted him.I can recommend all his previous ones - but this.... forget it!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Oh Mr Robbins, Seattle's own female diety worshipping closet lesbian; inventor of some of the finest characters to grace the pages of literature, from Switters the walking (pun intended) contradiction to the philosophising tin of beans; Oh Tom Robbins, spinner of tales of madness, enlightenment and bizarre magical poetry; pensmith extrodinaire, mushroom addled genius - why the hell did you bother to write this book?
Get back on the pad and let's not have anymore tales about 8 year old girls and beer fairies. Please.
Get back on the pad and let's not have anymore tales about 8 year old girls and beer fairies. Please.
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I just love the way Tom Robbins writes - in a superficially childlike way - rather like a fable. I have read most of his novels - some of them got a bit out of hand or a bit... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Norma innes
He's written better books
As like most, I am a massive Robbins fan but this book just didn't do enough for the Character development that is typical for the author. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Swinadian 77
Make up your own mind
Despite the general theme of reviews here, this is isn't a BAD book.
Yes, it's short. Yes, the plot is uncharacteristically linear. Read more
Yes, it's short. Yes, the plot is uncharacteristically linear. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mr
Robbins has done much much better than that
If you are a Tom Robbins fan you will probably be disappointed. It is sad to see one of your favourite authors getting 'tired'. Read more
Published on 21 May 2010 by Georgia P.
B is For Beer
Typical irreverant Robbins! Maybe too adult for kids, but a great read for me as a long-standing fan!
Published on 22 Dec 2009 by Mr. K. RJ Graham
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