Resumo de Still Life With Woodpecker

The novel Still Life With Woodpecker by the stickily infamous author Tom Robbins is an interesting read, indeed. Many find Tom Robbins writing style and subjects to be superannuated however if not taken too seriously anyone could enjoy his works. Not only for the young, but also for the unstuffy adults that inhabit our universe. Still Life With Woodpecker has a storyline contains characters of all ages, but in traditional Robbins fashion (if there could ever be such a thing) the main female in the story is young and increasingly attracted to older men.

Princess Leigh-Cheri is exiled with her father and mother from their home country to the rain doused city Seattle, Washington. She has just been mortified and saddened by the fact that she had a miscarriage during a cheerleading session. To get away from her sorrows the eco conscious princess decides to attend an ecological convention in Hawaii. It is on the plane ride to the convention that she first meets Bernard. Her terrorist in shining armor in this so-called fairy tale.

Bernard (a.k.a. Woodpecker) is going to Hawaii to bomb the convention. That?s what he does, he bombs, sometimes only because he?s an outlaw. By the way in case you didn?t know outlaws are dreadfully sexy, even if they have horrible artificially colored hair. Woodpecker?s hair is dyed black as a disguise, for he is wanted by the government for bombings a few years back, thus concealing his one similar trait with Leigh-Cheri. They both have bright red hair like the kind you could find say in the plumage of a woodpecker bird.

After a semi-failed bombing of her hotel, they officially meet and have a sort of affair in Hawaii. He is so enamored with her (as she is with him) that when the conventions over he goes to Seattle too. He goes to continue their relationship and meet her parents. Though soon he is captured by the F.B.I. mostly because they are watching Leigh-Cheri?s family in fear of a possible reunion of them and their nation. While he is imprisoned Leigh-Cherie decides to lock herself up in her attic so with a pack of Camels (knowing that he had a pack of his own) so that they were in the same position through all of it.

Some time later, they have a tiff and are disconnected from each other communicatively. A hurt Leigh-Cherie, boasted by her parents, decides to wed a rich and powerful Arab. When faced with the reality of her future life an engaged Leigh-Cheri has second thoughts and wants to call of the weddings. But she is deterred from stopping the marriage because of news about Bernard being dead, thanks to her angry fiancé. A distraught Leigh-Cheri decides to visit her wedding present, a pyramid constructed in her honor, on her wedding night so to reflect on her past and present decisions. There she sees a man with a beard and head of red fire, apparently Woodpecker had given his id to a friend whom was executed in his place.

In the end they are locked inside the pyramid by Leigh-Cheri?s infuriated and jealous fiancé. They survive for a few days on wedding cake and champagne, until eventually it is decided to use a makeshift bomb to open the pyramids inner chamber door. They are hurt in the bombing, though not vitally. In the end they are a happy doodle doo couple in their vine filled Seattle abode. Still Life With Woodpecker is absurdly imaginative and deviously humorous in a way that only Tom Robbins can construct. He has cleverly outrageous philosophies, notions, and analogies. One must read the book to get the full effect, this is no spoiler.

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