Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Robbins
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Easter weekend in the early 1990’s
- Setting: Seattle, Washington
- Principal Characters: Gwendolyn Mati, Q-Jo, Belford Dunn, Larry Diamond, Dr. Motofusa Yamaguchi, André
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Love or romance, Religion, Cancer, Pacific Northwest, Asian Americans, Stocks, Cities or towns, Stock exchange, Frogs
- Locales: Seattle, WA
This Tom Robbins novel has all the ingredients readers have come to expect from his earlier fiction. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas comments on life in the United States through characters who are slightly unmoored from it and who seem to be traveling on some other astral plane. The author, in lively lyrical style, comments on both the characters and their worlds with almost nonstop slapstick and verbal humor. What is most unusual about Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, perhaps, is that Robbins directly addresses the central character, so that the novel can be described as written...
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