Asked about the “seriocomic” aspect of his work, Robbins once stated: “To say that you can't take life seriously and that life shouldn't be taken seriously is not to say that life is trivial or frivolous.
Robbins would go on to publish six more novels, as well as an essay collection (2005’s Wild Ducks Flying Backward), a novella (2009’s B is for Beer) and, in 2014, a memoir – Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life.
A contemporaneous review of his memoir by Slate described the author’s writing style as comprising “goofily overheated prose that suggests somewhere deep inside Robbins’ brain is a little engineer staring at the simile gauges and muttering nervously that she canna take no more, Captain”.
The reviewer notes: “Robbins’ books are built around very specific theses about how the world works – they rail about how the government or church or dominant culture will be telling us one thing, but reality lies in a different direction.
Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues author dies, aged 92 Writer was known for his audacious metaphors and ‘seriocomic’ tone.
