B is For Beer

Description

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 dramatises 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.'

He has been called 'a vital natural resource' by The Portland Oregonian, 'one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world' by the FT, and 'the most dangerous writer in the world today' by Fernanda Pivano of Italy's Corriere della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle since 1962.

Impossibly imaginative * Vanity Fair * for all those Robbins fans who, without quite realizing it, have been pining for the right moment to introduce their children to this merry prankster -- Sonja Bolle * Newsday * One of the bravest writers in America * Chicago Tribune * anyone bemused by Robbins' previous novels, will guzzle down Robbins' latest brew -- Christian Toto * Denver Post * whimsical, absurdist -- Billy Heller * New York Post *