Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Author: Robbins, Tom
ISBN: 9780553349498
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Sep 1990
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
A reissue of a favorite from New York Times bestselling author Tom Robbins to coincide with the novella B Is for Beer, to be published by Ecco in February 2009.
Plt;bPgt;A classic tale of eccentric adventure from the Plt;iPgt;New York Times Plt;/iPgt;bestselling author of Plt;iPgt;Still Life with WoodpeckerPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt; Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#8220;This is one of those special novelsP#8212;a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.P#8221;P#8212;Thomas PynchonPlt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#8220;Plt;iPgt;Even Cowgirls Get the BluesPlt;/iPgt; comes as a magical gift, a brilliant affirmation of private visions and private wishes and their power to transform life and death.P#8221;P#8212;Plt;iPgt;The NationPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all P#8220;bursting with dimples and hormonesP#8221;P#8212;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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Plt;iPgt;Even Cowgirls Get the BluesPlt;/iPgt;. As Tom RobbinsP#8217;s 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.
ISBN: 9780553349498
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 01 Sep 1990
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback / softback
A reissue of a favorite from New York Times bestselling author Tom Robbins to coincide with the novella B Is for Beer, to be published by Ecco in February 2009.
Plt;bPgt;A classic tale of eccentric adventure from the Plt;iPgt;New York Times Plt;/iPgt;bestselling author of Plt;iPgt;Still Life with WoodpeckerPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt; Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#8220;This is one of those special novelsP#8212;a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.P#8221;P#8212;Thomas PynchonPlt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#8220;Plt;iPgt;Even Cowgirls Get the BluesPlt;/iPgt; comes as a magical gift, a brilliant affirmation of private visions and private wishes and their power to transform life and death.P#8221;P#8212;Plt;iPgt;The NationPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all P#8220;bursting with dimples and hormonesP#8221;P#8212;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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Plt;iPgt;Even Cowgirls Get the BluesPlt;/iPgt;. As Tom RobbinsP#8217;s 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.
