Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - by Tom Robbins (Paperback)

About the Book

Available for the first time in trade paperback, Tom Robbins' inventive, irreverent, and highly praised Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas is an outrageous novel that begins on the day the stock market falls out of bed and breaks its back.

Book Synopsis

Get ready for "the ride of your life" (Entertainment Weekly) with this blazingly original novel from the New York Times bestselling author hailed by Financial Times as "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world."

"Tom Robbins has proved he is the emperor of description, the master of metaphor, the sultan of simile--the man is like Jackson Pollock with a word processor."--San Antonio Current

When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you--an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker--are convinced that you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you're going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling disappearance of a 300-pound psychic, the fall from grace of a born-again monkey, or the intrusion in your life of a tattooed stranger intent on blowing your mind and most of your fuses. Over these fateful three days, you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from tarot-card bombshells to street violence, from your own sexuality to outer space.

Review Quotes

"The ride of your life."--Entertainment Weekly

"Tom Robbins continues to pour water on a dozing America. . . . The author is one of the most inventive stylists writing today."--People

"One of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world."--Financial Times

"Rant on, Robbins; our carking, swinking, workaday world needs you."--The Washington Post Book World

"A whirlwind of mad incidents . . . and an endless supply of great lines . . . A very funny book that might incite a bit of thinking as well as laughter."--Library Journal

"Once again, Tom Robbins has proved he is the emperor of description, the master of metaphor, the sultan of simile--the man is like Jackson Pollock with a word processor."--San Antonio Current

"It's hard not to fall under Robbins' seductive spell."--St. Petersburg Times

"Like good psilocybin, Robbins shows us things that we would not otherwise see, and after the light of his particular vision has shown upon an object, we will never see it again in quite the same way."--The Park City Record

About the Author

Tom Robbins has been called "a vital natural resource" by the Oregonian, "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world" by the Financial Times of London, and "the most dangerous writer in the world" by Fernanda Pivano of Italy's Corriere della Sera. His works include Jitterbug Perfume, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. A Southerner by birth, Tom Robbins lived in and around Seattle from 1962 until he passed away in 2025.