Villa Incognito

A Novel

A Novel

By Tom Robbins

By Tom Robbins

By Tom Robbins
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    About Villa Incognito

    Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine them part of a novel that only Tom Robbins could create—a magically crafted work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat. But no matter how hard you try, you’ll never imagine what you’ll find inside the Villa Incognito: a tilt-a-whirl of identity, masquerade, and disguise that dares to pull off “the false mustache of the world” and reveal the even greater mystery underneath. For neither the mists of Laos nor the Bangkok smog, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the pure linguistic phosphor that illuminates every page of one of America’s most consistently surprising and inventive writers.

    About Villa Incognito

    Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War.

    Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.

    Imagine just those things (don’t even try to imagine the love story) and you’ll have a foretaste of Tom Robbins’s eighth and perhaps most beautifully crafted novel–a work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat.

    On one level, this is a book about identity, masquerade and disguise–about “the false mustache of the world”–but neither the mists of Laos nor the smog of Bangkok, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the linguistic phosphor that illuminates the pages of Villa Incognito.

    A female fan once wrote to Tom Robbins:
    “Your books make me think, they make me laugh, they make me horny and they make me aware of the wonder of everything in life.”

    Villa Incognito will surely arouse a similar response in many readers, for in its lusty, amusing way it both celebrates existence and challenges our ideas about it.

    To say much more about a novel as fresh and surprising as Villa Incognito would run the risk of diluting the sheer fun of reading it. As his dedicated readers worldwide know full well, it’s best to climb aboard the Tom Robbins tilt-a-whirl, kiss preconceptions and sacred cows goodbye and simply enjoy the ride.

    About Villa Incognito

    Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War.

    Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.

    Imagine just those things (don’t even try to imagine the love story) and you’ll have a foretaste of Tom Robbins’s eighth and perhaps most beautifully crafted novel–a work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat.

    On one level, this is a book about identity, masquerade and disguise–about “the false mustache of the world”–but neither the mists of Laos nor the smog of Bangkok, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the linguistic phosphor that illuminates the pages of Villa Incognito.

    A female fan once wrote to Tom Robbins:
    “Your books make me think, they make me laugh, they make me horny and they make me aware of the wonder of everything in life.”

    Villa Incognito will surely arouse a similar response in many readers, for in its lusty, amusing way it both celebrates existence and challenges our ideas about it.

    To say much more about a novel as fresh and surprising as Villa Incognito would run the risk of diluting the sheer fun of reading it. As his dedicated readers worldwide know full well, it’s best to climb aboard the Tom Robbins tilt-a-whirl, kiss preconceptions and sacred cows goodbye and simply enjoy the ride.

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    Praise

    "Robbins…is to words what Uri Geller is to spoons: He bends sentences into playful escapades….Bottom line: Another bedside attraction."—People

    "Brilliantly offbeat satire."—Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    "A delectable farce, full of tantalizing secrets and bizarre disguises."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

    “Ebullient, irreverent, hilarious…Villa Incognito is ribald fairy tale meets…Apocalypse Now.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    “Robbins remains a welcome breath of fresh air in American literature.”—Globe and Mail

    “Perhaps [the] greatest book from Robbins…phantasmagorical, richly layered, utterly hilarious, and unexpectedly poignant.” —Pages

    About Tom Robbins

    Tom Robbins has been called “a vital natural resource” by the Oregonian, “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world” by the Financial Times of London, and “the most dangerous writer in the world today” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere… More about Tom Robbins

    About Tom Robbins

    Tom Robbins has been called “a vital natural resource” by the Oregonian, “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world” by the Financial Times of London, and “the most dangerous writer in the world today” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere… More about Tom Robbins

    About Tom Robbins

    Tom Robbins has been called “a vital natural resource” by the Oregonian, “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world” by the Financial Times of London, and “the most dangerous writer in the world today” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere… More about Tom Robbins

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Bantam
    Apr 27, 2004 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780553382198

    Ebook
    Published by Bantam
    Aug 30, 2005 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780553901924

    Audiobook Download
    Published by Random House Audio
    Apr 29, 2003 | 461 Minutes | ISBN 9780739303467

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