- Paperback: 365 pages
- Publisher: Bantam USA; Bantam Trade ed edition (April 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 055334949X
- ISBN-13: 978-0553349498
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 952,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
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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 Tom Robbins’s classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his 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.
Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins’s classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his 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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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Always lifts me out of the blues!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Paperback)
One of my all-time favourite books. Don't let the film put you off - saying that, I haven't seen it so that I wouldn't be put off! Robbins is an exceptional writer: his style is positive, uplifting, educational, honest, sensual, encapsulating joie de vivre. In this book, Sissy Hankshaw is a typically strong, unconventional female character who follows a Jack Kerouac inspired trek, eventually meeting Jellybean Bonanza (what a name!) on a cowgirl ranch for the climax (tic), plus the usual Robbins male guru to help see the light. There is some girlie action, which makes some folks inclined to believe that it's just a 'gay' book, but there's much more to the story than that and should appeal to all with Robbins enchanting his readers to be open-minded. Even 'squares' would secretly dig it!! This book really inspires and cheers me up. I've often lent it to friends - both male and female, straight or gay - and haven't got it back!! I don't mind and buy it again and again... and keep lending it and spreading the word(s): HA HA HO HO AND HEE HEE.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A big THUMBS UP!,
By Mrs. K. A. Wheatley "katywheatley" (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Paperback)
I loved this book. It was extremely bizarre in every way and yet I warmed to the characters and laughed and cried in all the right places. It is a wonderful hymn to the celebration of physical difference and "handicap" in all senses of the word and champions the underdog in the most wonderful way. There is a lot to take in, but buckle up and enjoy the ride.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well, its tom allright...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Paperback)
OK, the scene is fantastical and the characters are a little strange but they dont, in tom style seem unapproachable. Tom has a way of doing better than "normal people in extraordinary situations" bit. rather it is strange people in a strange land and he makes you believe it. Wild metaphors and brilliant observations abound. You would be hard pressed NOT to come away with Something excellent from this book-j
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