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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
A Novel
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Ideal for readers who enjoy offbeat characters, countercultural themes, and witty, poetic storytelling that combines humour with profound explorations of freedom and identity.
Champion hitchhiker Sissy Hankshaw, braless and free, makes her way across the confused and paranoid America of the 1970s, gathering knowledge and experience, friends and suitors, and all sorts of unusual acquaintances.
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A reissue of a favourite from New York Times bestselling author Tom Robbins to coincide with the novella B Is for Beer, to be published by Ecco in February 2009.
A classic tale of eccentric adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Woodpecker.
"This is one of those special novels-a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane." - Thomas Pynchon
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues comes as a magical gift, a brilliant affirmation of private visions and private wishes and their power to transform life and death." - The Nation
The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all "bursting with dimples and hormones" - and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all.
Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. As Tom Robbins's robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind.
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“This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane—that you just want to ride off into the sunset with.” – Thomas Pynchon
“The best fiction, so far, to come out of the American counterculture.” Chicago Tribune Book World
“Even Cowgirls Get the Blues comes as a magical gift, a brilliant affirmation of private visions and private wishes and their power to transform life and death.” The Nation
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780553349498
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 1990
Country: United States
Imprint: Bantam Books Inc
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 209.0mm
Weight: 289g
Pages: 384
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About the Author
Tom Robbins has been called "a vital natural resource" by the Oregonian, "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world" by the Financial Times of London, and "the most dangerous writer in the world" by Fernanda Pivano of Italy's Corriere della Sera. His works include Jitterbug Perfume, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. A Southerner by birth, Tom Robbins lived in and around Seattle from 1962 until he passed away in 2025.
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