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Another Roadside Attraction is a novel written by Tom Robbins, published in 1971.
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
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.
In this novel, the author uses nonlinear plot progression in the tone of a diary to express his views on religion and other topics.