About this title: An East Asian wild dog named Tanuki is sent to earth from another world, takes on a human shape, and travels to Kyoto, where his adventures include marriage, fatherhood, and encounters with an Elvis impersonator, a literature-loving whore, and a troupe of acrobats in a circus.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780553382198ISBN:0553382195
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Description: Very Good. 0553803328 Paperback / light shelf wear / edge wear cover / pages light discoloration around edges//"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780553382198ISBN:0553382195
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Great used copy, no writing or marks. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good. 1842431021 **Softcover**--Exactly as described, but different cover, same content--cover has shelf wear at tips of corners and minor cover crease or curl, no Spine Creasing, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Tight and well bound. read more
Description: Very Good. 1863254102 **Softcover**--Exactly as pictured--EXACT ISBN MATCH--cover has shelf wear at tips of corners and minor cover crease or curl, minor Spine Creasing, No personalizations, No marks in the text at all. Tight and well bound. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780553803327ISBN:0553803328
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Pages clean binding tight usual ex lib stickers. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This probably would have been two stars, but the story itself is what redeemed this book for me in the end. I liked the mythology entwined with modern story telling take on this story and the characters within, but I was very slow to warm up to the book. It took me forever to really get into, which is unusual for me, and I had to keep reminding myself to pick it up and finish it. About half-way through is when I really began to get involved. However I cannot say I am a big fan of Robbins' writing style, which I found incredibly distracting, not as clever as Tom RObbins obviously thought it was, and a bit self-centered, though it did have moments."
"Found it amongst the used fictions books in Itaewon's What the Book. Stashed it away behind some other books on the bottom shelf so no one would take it. Came back a few days later, sold some old books, found this again, untouched, and bought it! I enjoyed the last Tom Robbins that I read and having a feeling that I won't be let down by this piece. What better time to start reading about it then when headed for SEAsia where, according to the book jacket, part of the story takes place! 8/30/2009
Glad I stashed it! There's nothing like reading fiction that just so happens to take place in the strange remote areas through which you are currently traveling. It's even better when the story is one contrived by the literary mastermind, Tom Robbins. His stories are seemingly always the product of insane genious and so enthralling that I simply never want to stop. The only problem is then the book flies by all too quickly and is finished before I know it.
Following Dickie, Mars and Foley through the jungles of South East Asia was a trip, primarily because I am currently on a route that will lead me through just the places that they carried out their adventures. I've yet to come across any wild Tanukis but, if any of my sake goes missing, I certainly won't hesitate to place the blame on our furry little friend!
"oh tom robbins, maybe you should have stopped writing books after your seventh one, because this book was a bore. it seemed as if you traded in your old style for the more modern take on the novel, creating something like haruki murakami trying to write a tom clancy novel. it is somewhat disgusting because the wit is not there and is instead replaced by something that resembles john irving in his old age (i.e. the fourth hand), something tired and worn out and gasping for air and grasping for straws."
"Overall I really enjoyed reading this and I can see myself reading it again from time to time. This novel was a bit "out there" even by Robbins standards and somehow blended together Japanese animal folklore with the a circus and three Americans who served together as Special Forces in Vietnam. Only Robbins could pull this off with such style and humor. The man is an infinite well of metaphors and wit, and he never ceases to amaze me with his cast of bizarre characters and storyline."
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