Still Life With Woodpecker (31 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TOM ROBBINS
has been called “a vital natural resource” by
The Portland Oregonian,
“one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world” by the
Financial Times
of London, and “the most dangerous writer in the world today” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s
Corriere della Sera.
A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle since 1962.

STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER
A Bantam Book

PUBLISHING HISTORY
Bantam trade paperback edition / August 1980
Bantam trade paperback reissue / May 2003

Published by Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York

All Rights Reserved
Copyright © 1980 by Tom Robbins
Book designed by Lurelle Cheverle

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Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

EPILOGUE