Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Infobox Book
name = Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
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image_caption = Cover of first edition (hardcover)
author = Tom Robbins
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Bantam Books
release_date = 1994
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media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback
pages = 386 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-553-07625-6
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followed_by = One of Tom Robbins' less well-known novels, "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas" was published in 1994 by Bantam Books. Like Robbins' other books, the plot involves an eclectic mix of characters and complicated scenarios, and mixes the mundane with the mysterious, in the form of the Sirius mysteries and the mythology surrounding the Dogon Tribe. [cite book
last = Hoyser
first = Catherine E.
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coauthors = Lorena Laura Stookey
title = Tom Robbins: A Critical Companion
publisher = Greenwood Press
date = 1997
location =
pages = 9, 150
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=p1kuP06fhWUC&pg=PP1&dq=Tom+Robbins:+A+Critical+Companion&sig=FBigXXKFHa3fIVg-Ep1m6q176nI
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isbn = 0-313-29418-6 ] Unlike his other books, "Half Asleep" is written entirely in the second person, present tense.
Robbins was a personal friend of Terence McKenna [ [http://www.tripzine.com/listing.php?smlid=129 Tripzine.com interview with Terence McKenna] ] , whose influence is evident in several of his books. A main character (Larry Diamond) in Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas advocates a theory similar to those of McKenna, involving Psilocybin.
Release details
* Hardcover – ISBN 0-553-07625-6 (ISBN-13: 978-0-553-07625-7) published on August 1, 1994 by Bantam Books
* Paperback – ISBN 0-553-37787-6 (ISBN-13: 978-0-553-37787-3) published on November 1, 1995 by Bantam Books
References
External links
* [http://www.aftrlife.com The Aftrlife: A Tom Robbins Playground]
* [http://www.blather.net/bookstore/robbins_half.html Review at Blather.net]
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