{"product_id":"even-cowgirls-get-the-blues-by-tom-robbins-9780553349498","title":"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA reissue of a favourite from New York Times bestselling author Tom Robbins to coincide with the novella \u003cem\u003eB Is for Beer\u003c\/em\u003e, to be published by Ecco in February 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA classic tale of eccentric adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eStill Life with Woodpecker\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This is one of those special novels-a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.\" - Thomas Pynchon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cem\u003eEven Cowgirls Get the Blues\u003c\/em\u003e comes as a magical gift, a brilliant affirmation of private visions and private wishes and their power to transform life and death.\" - The Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFreedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of \u003cem\u003eEven Cowgirls Get the Blues\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47642865402092,"sku":"9780553349498","price":51.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/cdbe4c13b31a75fc7617506151262510.jpg?v=1779166184","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues-by-tom-robbins-9780553349498","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}