Another Roadside Attraction

: Another Roadside Attraction (festival), is also a Canadian music festival

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Another Roadside Attraction (festival) - Canadian - Music festival

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Another Roadside Attraction is Tom Robbins' first novel, published in 1971 by Bantam Books, which initiated what has grown to be considered his cult following.

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Tom Robbins - 1971 - Cult following

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The novel follows the adventures of John Paul Ziller and his wife Amanda, who open a combination hot dog stand and zoo along a highway in Skagit county, Washington. Other characters in this rather oddball novel include Mon Cul the baboon; Marx Marvelous, an educated man from the east coast; and L. Westminster "Plucky" Purcell, a former college football star and sometime dope dealer who accidentally infiltrates a group of Catholic monks working as assassins for the Vatican. In so doing Plucky discovers a secret of monumental proportions dating to the very beginning of Christianity.

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Hot dog - Highway - Skagit county - Washington - Baboon - Football - Catholic - Assassins - Vatican

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In this novel, the author uses nonlinear plot progression in the tone of a diary to express his views on religion and other topics.

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A movie treatment was written by Michael Dare and can be found at

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http://www.disinfotainmenttoday.com/darenet/ara.htm

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