Everything you need to understand or teach Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas opens on Holy Thursday evening, the beginning of the long Easter weekend for the American financial and commodity markets. Robbins's choice of date is significant, as he intends to resurrect two of his characters from death, one from a spiritual death and the other from immanent physical death. Gwen Mati meets Larry Diamond in the Bull & Bear bar as she awaits the opening of the Japanese markets which will determine whether she will have destroyed her career and bankrupted her customers. Larry is largely unconcerned by the movement of the stock market and more concerned with developing a relationship with Gwen who initially rebuffs him. During the course of the novel, Larry begins the process of teaching Gwen that her greedy and class-conscious behavior lies directly in the way of her spiritual development.
Larry is suffering from colon cancer and has recently returned...
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