B Is for
Beer
A Children’s Book for Grownups
A Grown-up Book for Children
TOM ROBBINS
Once upon a time (right about now) there was a planet ‘One of the bravest writers in America.’
(how about this one?) whose inhabitants consumed
- Chicago Tribune
thirty-six billion gallons of beer each year (it’s a fact,
you can Google it). Among those affected, each in his
‘One of the wildest and most
or her own way, by all the bubbles, burps, and foam, entertaining writers in the world’
was a smart, wide-eyed, adventurous young schoolgirl – Financial Times
named Gracie; her distracted mum, her insensitive
dad, her non-conformist uncle and a magical, butt-
‘Impossibly imaginative’
kicking intruder from a world within our world.
– Vanity Fair
Populated by the aforementioned characters - and ‘Tom Robbins has a grasp on things
as charming as it may be subversive - B Is for Beer
that dazzles the brain’
involves readers, young and old, in a surprising, far-
– Thomas Pynchon
reaching investigation into the limits of reality, the
transformative powers of children, and, of course, the
£9.99 PPC WITH JACKET
ultimate meaning of a tall, cold brewski.
AND PRINTED ENDPAPERS
Billed by Robbins as ‘the first children’s book about beer,’ AVAILABLE MAY 2009
this inspired work taps into the barrel of life’s existential ISBN: 978-1-84243-331-7
mysteries and is, of course, truly meant to sit proudly with
(203 X 135mm) 128pp
his other novels in the grown-up literature section.
8 B&W Illustrations
Tom Robbins has written eight
All original artwork created by Les Lepere
previous novels - Another Roadside
RIGHTS: UK & SOUTH AFRICA
Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get
the Blues, Fierce Invalids Home
from Hot Climates, Half Asleep in
Frog Pajamas, Jitterbug Perfume,
Skinny Legs and All, Still Life With
Woodpecker and Villa Incognito.
plus his non-fiction collection Wild Ducks Flying
Backward. This is his ninth novel.
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/beer/
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