Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
- List Price: $27.50
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Bantam Books
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
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 ham 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 equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior).
Yet there's nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn't merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. Robbins has said that throughout the writing of "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates", he was guided by the advice of Julia Child: "Learn to handle hot things. Keep your knives sharp. Above all, have a good time".
Perhaps that is why he has managed to write a provocative, rascally novel that takes no prisoners -- and yet is upbeat, romantic, meaningful, adventurous, edifying, and fun.
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