Still Life with Woodpecker: A Surreal Love Story from the Master of American Counterculture

From the New York Times bestselling author hailed by the Financial Times as “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world,” comes a cult classic of love, freedom, and philosophical humour — a surreal love story that unfolds inside a pack of Camel cigarettes and burns with the fire of rebellion and romance.

Still Life with Woodpecker is Tom Robbins’s iconic blend of literary fiction, satire, and countercultural comedy.

Part love story, part cosmic joke, part philosophical quest, it asks the big questions — What is love? What is freedom? What is the purpose of the moon? — and answers them with Robbins’s signature anarchy, wit, and hallucinatory imagination.

Featuring exiled princesses, passionate outlaws, pregnant cheerleaders, and philosophical camels, this absurdist masterpiece of humorous fiction explores the clash between romantic individualism and social activism, proving that love might just be the ultimate act of rebellion.

Perfect for fans of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Joseph Heller, Still Life with Woodpecker remains one of the most beloved cult classics in modern American literature.

‘Robbins’s comic philosophical musings reveal a flamboyant genius.’—People