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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

A Novel

A Novel

By Tom Robbins

By Tom Robbins

By Tom Robbins

By Tom Robbins

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Paperback $17.00

Apr 01, 1990 | ISBN 9780553349498

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Jun 17, 2003 | ISBN 9780553897890

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    About Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

    “This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon

    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.

    About Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

    “This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon

    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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    About Tom Robbins

    Tom Robbins has been called “a vital natural resource” by the Oregonian, “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world” by the Financial Times of London, and “the most dangerous writer in the world today” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere… More about Tom Robbins

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    Tom Robbins has been called “a vital natural resource” by the Oregonian, “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world” by the Financial Times of London, and “the most dangerous writer in the world today” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere… More about Tom Robbins

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Bantam
    Apr 01, 1990 | 384 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780553349498

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Bantam
    Jun 17, 2003 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9780553897890

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    Praise

    “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

    “The best fiction, so far,  to come out of the American  counterculture.”—Chicago Tribune Book World

    “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues comes as a magical gift, a brilliant affirmation of private visions and private wishes and their power to transform life and death.”—The Nation

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