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Instead, Robbins told Nichols he wanted to write a novel and pitched the idea of what was to become Another Roadside Attraction. In Robbins mailed off 30 pages of his novel to Nichols who sent them on to the New York office. Another Roadside Attraction senior editors, holdovers from when Doubleday was a Roman Catholic publishing house, did not approve, but Nichols encouraged Robbins to keep writing. When he had 70 pages, Another Roadside Attraction tried them again on New York, but the senior editors were still unconvinced. It wasn't until that Doubleday finally accepted the manuscript and in published 6, copies of Another Roadside Attraction Roadside Attraction. In his memoir, Robbins states that he did not want to describe the sixties in this novel but to re-create them on the page, "to mirror in style as well as content their mood, their palette, their extremes, their vibrations, their profundity, their silliness and whimsy. In the book a baboon is stolen from the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Shortly after publication someone did actually steal a baboon from the Zoo. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the novel. For the Canadian music festival, see Another Roadside Attraction festival. This article relies too much on references to primary sources. Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources. September Learn how and when to remove this template message. Dewey Decimal. Works by Tom Robbins. Categories : American novels Novels by Tom Robbins American comedy novels Novels set in Washington state Doubleday publisher books Christianity in fiction debut novels Nonlinear narrative novels. Hidden categories: Articles lacking reliable references from September All articles lacking reliable references. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Another Roadside Attraction View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. 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