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When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you - an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker - are going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt before Monday. But there's no way you can anticipate that over these fateful three days you will be forced to confront everything from mysterious African rituals to legendary amphibians, from your own sexuality to outer space. This is Tom Robbins in his finest form. 'A piece of working magic, warm, funny and sane' - Thomas Pynchon