The book is significant for the creative biography of Tom Robbins, a writer officially recognized as a “national treasure of the American counterculture.” An ironic parable? A bizarre phantasmagoria? Simply a smart and original “fairy tale for adults,” filled with an incredible number of references to literary, musical and cinematic masterpieces “ the stormy sixties"? Why was this novel compared to the works of Vonnegut and Brautigan and at the same time with Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land"? It is simply impossible to explain...