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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues [Paperback]

Tom Robbins
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
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22 Nov 2011
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.
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  • Paperback: 366 pages
  • Publisher: No Exit Press; New edition edition (22 Nov 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1842430246
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842430248
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 106,323 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Always lifts me out of the blues! 15 Nov 2001
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Format: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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A big THUMBS UP! 1 April 2001
By Mrs. K. A. Wheatley TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Well, its tom allright... 2 Aug 1999
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Format: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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2.0 out of 5 stars Slow delivery
Slow delivery. Book looks a bit tired too. I have started to look for books second-hand, as they are expensive and they only pass through your hands for a brief period, so why... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Gezza
2.0 out of 5 stars silly throwaway entertainment
Maybe my expectations are too high or I am a snob, but I thought this was a truly lousy novel. It is a typical frivolous 70s-style story, posturing as a more genuine 1960s... Read more
Published on 9 May 2011 by rob crawford
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun!
Before reading page one, I feared I would have to trudge through 400 pages of sappy tales of a cowgirl. Read more
Published on 5 July 2010 by austinmiller
5.0 out of 5 stars Sissy Hankshaw Rules!
Sissy Hankshaw is one of my favorite characters ever put on paper, right behind Ignatius in CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES and Max Perkins in McCrae's KATZENJAMMER. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2007 by Bob
4.0 out of 5 stars Even Cowgirls get the Blues
I fell hopelessly in love with this book by about page ten. The free spirit of Sissy Hankshaw and her perception of life is intoxicating. Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2003 by "natrev"
1.0 out of 5 stars Overrated And Overheated
Annoying fiction from the overrated (and overheated) Robbins.
Published on 26 Aug 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars DELICIOUS!
Well, y'all, it takes a very special sort of person to appreciate Tom Robbins' irony. Where but in a Robbins novel would you find the philosophy of time, lesbians, whooping... Read more
Published on 20 Aug 1999
1.0 out of 5 stars I'm amazed that anyone could possibly enjoy this book.
This book should be douched out of existence. I'm amazed that anyone could enjoy this pointless, digressive orgy of self-indulgence. Read more
Published on 10 July 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars a beautiful, indelible addition to the imagination
This book is one of those rare experiences that can transport you to a world of emotional and intellectual bliss. Even thinking about this book can get you there. Read more
Published on 2 July 1999
2.0 out of 5 stars Yeah right
I think Robbins, in his effort to sound deep and thoughtful (and bohemian too), lost control of a good idea and spent most of the book drifting around. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 1999
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