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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Paperback)

by Tom Robbins (Author)
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  • Paperback: 365 pages
  • Publisher: No Exit Press; New edition edition (10 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1842430246
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842430248
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 79,555 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Starring Sissy Hanshaw - flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match - hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bag...Featuring; Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink; a lascivious guru of yams and yang. Julian; a Mohawk by birth, asthmatic aesthete and husband by disposition. Dr. Robbins; preventive psychiatrist and reality instructor...Follow Sissy's amazing odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax...

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11 of 12 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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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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A big THUMBS UP!, 2 April 2001
By Mrs. K. A. Wheatley "katywheatley" (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews
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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 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars DELICIOUS!, 20 Aug 1999
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This review is from: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Paperback)
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 cranes, peyote and anal sex (not necessarily in that order!) I loved this book. It made me want to move to an all-girl commune and become a cowgirl. Yee haa!!!! A masterpiece!!!!
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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

4.0 out of 5 stars Well, its tom allright...
OK, the scene is fantastical and the characters are a little strange but they dont, in tom style seem unapproachable. Read more
Published on 2 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 Jul 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 Jul 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

1.0 out of 5 stars Two very large, unenthusiastic thumbs down.
I have struggled through this book for 3 1/2 weeks and finally finished it. WARNING: Do not judge the brilliance of Tom Robbins on this wordy excuse for a good idea. Read more
Published on 21 May 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Intoxicatingly Funny
Robbins knows how to preach from a paisly colored pulpit and reach his golden nose into everything that is not his business. Read more
Published on 14 May 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars TR Tries too Hard
Robbins reminds me of the over-hyped Jerry Seinfeld (who also is not as funny or clever as he thinks). They both try too hard.
Published on 8 April 1999

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