B Is for
Beer
A Children’s Book for Grownups
A Grown-up Book for Children
TOM ROBBINS
‘Have you ever wondered why your daddy likes beer so ‘One of the bravest writers in
much? Have you wondered, before you fall asleep at night,
America.’ - Chicago Tribune
why he sometimes acts kind of “funny” after he’s been drinking
beer? Maybe you’ve even wondered where beer comes from,
‘One of the wildest and most
because you’re pretty sure it isn’t from a cow. Well, Gracie entertaining writers in the world’ -
Perkel wondered those same things.’
Financial Times
So begins bestselling author Tom Robbins’ first fiction in five
‘Impossibly imaginative’ - Vanity Fair
years (and perhaps his most audacious ever), B Is for Beer
explores various aspects of beer culture - ancient, modern,
‘Tom Robbins has a grasp on things
and otherworldly; brutal, infantile and divine - and dramatizes that dazzles the brain’
the surprising things that happen when the life of a feisty
- Thomas Pynchon
nursery school kid named Gracie Perkel intersects with each.
£9.99 HARDBACK
Billed by Robbins as ‘the first children’s book about beer,’ this
AVAILABLE MAY 2009
inspired work taps into the barrel of life’s existential mysteries
ISBN13: 978-1-84243-331-7
and is, of course, truly meant to sit proudly with his other
‘Crown Octavo’ Format (186 X 14mm) 18pp
novels in the grown-up literature section. 8 B&W Illustrations
All original artwork created by Les Lepere
Tom Robbins is the author of eight novels including RIGHTS: UK & COMMONWEALTH
Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the
EXCL. CANADA, AUSTRALIA
Blues, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Half
& NEW ZEALAND
Asleep in Frog Pajamas, Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs
and All, Still Life With Woodpecker and Villa Incognito. No
Exit have also published a collection of his writings entitled
Wild Ducks Flying Backward .
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/beer/
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