Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates is Tom Robbins' seventh and longest novel, first published in 2000. Invalids follows Switters, our wheelchair-bound protagonist, across four continents, in and out of love and danger. Through Switters, Robbins "explores, challenges, mocks, and celebrates virtually every major aspect of our mercurial era." (Quote from the hardcover book jacket.) Robbins has stated in numerous interviews that in this book he w... more

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates is Tom Robbins' seventh and longest novel, first published in 2000. Invalids follows Switters, our wheelchair-bound protagonist, across four continents, in and out of love and danger. Through Switters, Robbins "explores, challenges, mocks, and celebrates virtually every major aspect of our mercurial era." (Quote from the hardcover book jacket.) Robbins has stated in numerous interviews that in this book he was trying to deal with contradiction. But rather than eschewing his contradictory nature, as is typical Western practice, Switters embraces it. He's a CIA agent who hates the government. He's a pacifist who carries a gun. He's as much in love with his seventeen-year-old stepsister as he is with a forty-six-year-old nun. Switters feels that the core of the universe, the heart of existence, is light and dark existing together. One is not separate from the other, they just exist. This is the core of "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates", along... less