'Villa Incognito' may be quirky Tom Robbins' best novel yet

To say Tom Robbins' prose is inventive and enjoyably absurd is not to offer fresh insight into his work. To point out the author's writing is allusion-heavy and peppered by raucous iconography is not to proffer original praise.

Robbins' uncanny talent for characterization and dialogue has consistently pleased readers throughout his past seven novels, so what makes his eighth, "Villa Incognito" (Bantam, 241 pages, $24), so different? Mercifully: nothing.
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What a wonderful way to start the day — to find out there is a new Tom Robbins novel.

Villa Incognito is now in my Amazon wish list (hint, hint).