Tom Robbins uncommon 1st book 1965 Guy Anderson Gear Works

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Guy Anderson 1965 Gear Works Press, Queen Anne Station, SeattleA 38 page monograph on the Skagit Valley artist Guy Anderson, profusely illustrated with b/w photos, and a color tipped-in plate on the rear foldoutTom Robbins' 14 page article is considered by collectors to be his first book length work , p ublished 6 years prior to his breakout novel Another Roadside Attraction 9x12 oversized silkscreened wra ps Uncommon to find in this Fine collect ible condition . From Wikipedia: Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins (born July 22, 1936)is an American author. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy-drama"), often wildly poetic stories with a strong social and philosophical undercurrent, an irreverent bent, and scenes extrapolated from carefully researched bizarre facts. He is probably best known for his novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues which was made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant and starring Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco and Keanu Reeves. Robbins has written nine novels, and one collection, since 1971. He has also written numerous short stories and essays. Another Roadside Attraction (1971) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976) Still Life with Woodpecker (1980) Jitterbug Perfume (1984) Skinny Legs and All (1990) Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994) Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000) Villa Incognito (2003) Wild Ducks Flying Backward (2005) — a collection of essays, reviews, and short stories. B Is for Beer (2009) Robbins was born in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, United States (US), to George Thomas Robbins and Katherine Belle Robinson. Both of his grandfathers were Southern Baptist preachers. The Robbins family resided in Blowing Rock before moving to Warsaw, Virginia in 1942. Robbins graduated in 1950 from Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, Virginia, where he won the Senior Essay Medal. The following year he enrolled at Washington and Lee University to major in journalism, leaving at the end of his sophomore year after being disciplined by his fraternity for bad behavior and failing to earn a letter in basketball. In 1953, he enlisted in the Air Force after receiving his draft notice, spending a year as a meteorologist in Korea, then two years in the Special Weather Intelligence unit of the Strategic Air Command in Nebraska. He was discharged in 1957, returning to Richmond, Virginia where he was a fixture on the local bohemian scene, reading poetry at the Rhinoceros Coffee House. In late 1957, Robbins enrolled at Richmond Professional Institute, a school of art, drama, and music, which later became Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He was editor of the college newspaper and worked nights on the sports desk of the daily Richmond Times-Dispatch. After graduating with honors from VCU in 1959 and indulging in some hitchhiking, Robbins joined the staff of the Times-Dispatch as a copy editor. In 1962, Robbins moved to Seattle to seek a Master's degree at the Far East Institute of the University of Washington. During the next five years in Seattle (minus a year spent in New York city researching a book on the painter, Jackson Pollock) he worked for the Seattle Times as an art critic. In 1965, he wrote a column on the arts for Seattle Magazine. Also during this time, he hosted a weekly "underground" radio show at non-commercial KRAB-FM. It was in 1967, while writing a review of the rock band The Doors, that Robbins says he found his literary voice. Writing career In 1967, Robbins moved to South Bend, Washington, where he wrote his first novel. In 1970, Robbins moved to La Conner, Washington, and it was at his home on Second Street that he subsequently authored nine books (although in the late 1990s he spent two years living on the Swomish Indian reservation. Personal life Robbins was a friend of Terence McKenna,[4] whose influence appears evident in a couple of his books. A main character (Larry Diamond) in Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas advocates a theory similar to t... read more

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