Another Roadside Attraction

Another Roadside Attraction
By Tom Robbins
Selected by Ryan Kiedrowski


From the Publisher: What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if “the Corpse” on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is—what does that portend for the future of western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as popular entertainment and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tell us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out. In the process, this stunningly original seriocomic thriller is fully capable of simultaneously eating a literary hot dog and eroding the borders of the mind


Ryan Kiedrowski is the Editor for the Brooks and County Chronicle. Ryan moved to Brooks eight years ago from "sundry places in Saskatchewan". He tells us that he chose this book for Brooks Reads because "I've always been a Tom Robbins fan, and was fascinated with the characters he created in this, his first of many stellar novels over the span of more than three decades. Where else can you combine hippies, organized religion, a baboon named Mon Cul and a hotdog stand zoo, then have it all somehow seem sensical? His writing style is beyond comparison in general, but in Another Roadside Attraction, I found myself needing to close the book at certain points in order to laugh hysterically. It's one of those books you can't put down and wish never came to an end."


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