HALF ASLEEP IN FROG PAJAMAS

Robbins, Tom

ISBN 10: 0553076256 / ISBN 13: 9780553076257

Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1994

About this Item

The sixth novel of the highly original Robbins features a young, ambitious, ineffectual, not entirely ethical Seattle stockbroker whose world is going up in smoke as the stock market comes crashing down on a Thursday, giving him only a long weekend to find a way out from under. Of course, he doesn't yet know about the missing 300-pound psychic, or the born-again monkey or the tattooed stranger intent on blowing his mind and most of his fuses but by the time it's all over, he completely understands what's meant by "half asleep in frog pajamas." Small dent in top edge of front cover, upper corners of both covers lightly bumped, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket's top edge shows some wear with a crease at the top of the front panel but no tears or chipping. It is not price-clipped or remaindered. Seller Inventory # 004722

Bibliographic Details

Title: HALF ASLEEP IN FROG PAJAMAS

Publisher: Bantam Books, New York

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.

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Synopsis:

When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there’s no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses. Over these fateful three days, you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot-card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space. This is, after all, a Tom Robbins novel—and the author has never been in finer form.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Publisher:

"Tom Robbins continues to pour water on a dozing America...the author is one of the most inventive stylists writing today."
-- People

"One of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world."
-- Financial Times, London

"If (Jitterbug Perfume and Skinny Legs and All's) fuel-injected prose and far-out-in-left-field philosophy freaked you, then toddle back to Robert Fulghum, because Frog Pajamas is a scream in the same vein."
--USA Today

"Rant on, Robbins; our carking, swinking, workaday world needs you."
--The Washington Post Book World