Villa incognito

Resource Information

The work Villa incognito represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Villa incognito

Statement of responsibility

Tom Robbins

Creator

• Robbins, Tom, 1932-

Subject

• Domestic fiction
• Electronic books
• Folklore -- Fiction
• Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
• Laos -- Fiction
• Love stories
• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• Bangkok (Thailand) -- Fiction
• Seattle (Wash.) -- Fiction
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Missing in action -- Fiction
• San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction

Genre

• Electronic books
• Fiction
• Love stories
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine just those things (don't even try to imagine the love story) and you'll have a foretaste of Tom Robbins's eighth and perhaps most beautifully crafted novel--a work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat. On one level, this is a book about identity, masquerade and disguise--about "the false mustache of the world"--But neither the mists of Laos nor the smog of Bangkok, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the linguistic phosphor that illuminates the pages of Villa Incognito

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3568.O233

LC item number

V55 2003eb

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries