Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Robbins, Tom
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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 bags...

Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink, lascivious guru of yams and yang. Julian, Mohawk by birth; asthmatic esthete 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...

"This is one of those special novels--a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and san--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"

Product Details
Price
$18.00
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publish Date
Pages
386
Dimensions
5.32 X 8.22 X 0.84 inches | 0.65 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780553349498

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About the Author
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 della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle since 1962.
Reviews
"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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