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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: A Novel (original 1976; edition 1990)

by Tom Robbins (Author)

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"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.… (more)
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Title:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: A Novel
Authors:Tom Robbins (Author)
Info:Bantam (1990), Edition: Reissue, 384 pages
Collections:2018, Your library
Rating:**1/2
Tags:fiction, book club, literary, reread

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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins (1976)

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A book I stuck with if only to say I had read it. In most ways reads like the 70s novel it is. A bit dated, a touch too wacky, and an unsatisfying ending, left this reader cold. Not my cup of tea I suppose. ( )
  skid0612 | Feb 28, 2024 |
I enjoyed this book shortly after its paperback was published, but not so much when I tried to read it years later. ( )
  mykl-s | Aug 13, 2023 |
I can't stomach reading any more of this. There's no joy in reading chapter upon chapter where someone's thumb is described ad nauseum. It's repetitive masturbatory nothingness. ( )
  thenthomwaslike | Jul 24, 2023 |
Hard to follow sometimes... very weird... good, just very weird... ( )
1 vote Serenity17 | Nov 5, 2022 |
i liked the musings regarding women and paganism. beyond that, it's difficult to identify with the characters. ( )
  rufus666 | Aug 14, 2022 |
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LePere, LeslieCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lindquist, ThomasTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.
--William Blake
I told Dale, "When I go, just skin me and put me on top of Trigger." And Dale said, "Now don't get any ideas about me."
-- Roy Rogers
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To Fleetwood Star Robbins, the apple, the pineapple, the mango, and orchard of my eye. And, of course, to all cowgirls, everywhere.
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Amoebae leave no fossils.
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Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
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"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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Sissy Hankshaw jest wyjątkową dziewczyną, która urodziła się z niezwykle dużymi kciukami. W tej sytuacji mogła wybrać tylko jedną drogę życiową - została autostopowiczką. I to autostopowiczką niezrównaną.Po wieloletnich wędrówkach przez czas i przestrzeń dotarła w końcu na ranczo Gumowej Róży.Tam przyłączyła się do grupy kowbojek i wraz z nimi rozpoczęła walkę o wolność - swoją i żurawi krzykliwych.

[Zysk i S-ka, 1999]
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