Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates: Book by Tom Robbins
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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates is a satirical, adventure-filled novel about Switters, a CIA operative who is part philosopher, part rogue, and deeply unconventional. As he travels across the globe on strange missions, the story blends espionage, spirituality, eroticism, and absurd humour, challenging ideas about morality, identity, and Western culture. The novel is known for its playful language and philosophical digressions.
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In Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins seventh and biggest novel, he brings on stage the most complex and compelling character he has ever created. Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government, a pacifist who carries a gun, a vegetarian who sops up gravy, a cyberwhiz who hates computers, a robust bon-vivant who can be as squeamish as any fop, a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become enamoured of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn’t merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol.
And as we ‘dog’ Switters’ strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, Robbins explores, challenges, mocks and celebrates virtually every major aspect of our mercurial era. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates is provocative, upbeat, romantic, adventurous, edifying and, above all, fun.
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