- Hardcover: 365 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; First Edition edition (1976)
- ISBN-10: 039524305X
- ISBN-13: 978-0395243053
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,553,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"IT IS NOT a heart: light, heavy, kind or broken; dear, hard, bleeding or transplanted; it is not a heart." Read the first page
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format: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
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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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 12 months ago by rob crawford
Fun!
Before reading page one, I feared I would have to trudge through 400 pages of sappy tales of a cowgirl. Read more
Published 23 months ago by austinmiller
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
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"
Overrated And Overheated
Annoying fiction from the overrated (and overheated) Robbins.
Published on 26 Aug 1999
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
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
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
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
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
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