Tom Robbins

Free spirited hitchhiker Sissy Henshaw makes her way across the confused and paranoid America of the 1970s, gathering knowledge and experience, friends and lovers, and all sorts of unusual acquaintances

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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Travis Todd

'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 Long-awaited new edition of classic Robbins novel that is still as fresh now as when originally published. Starring Sissy Hanshaw - flawlessly beautiful, almost - a small-time girl with big-time dreams and a thumb to match, you'll oh so easily find her hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes and your sleeping bag. Delicious.

Patrick Book

Robbins at nearly his most insufferable. It seems appropriate that this novel was serialized in "High Times" magazine, because you'd have to be on something for some of the nonsense philosophizing to make sense. And Robbins' prose here is too often painfully self-indulgent and pointless, to the point that it is painful to read. If you've read some of his better works this will surely disappoint.

such an amazing read that has the ability to really draw you into the world of the rubber rose. Goes super deep in a lighthearted way and probs only a 4.5 because I read the first half in june

Riley Baker

So incredibly good I think also weird and confusing and I already want to read it again but sir robbins writing is wonderfully eccentric and original

Francisca Rubio Wenk

Champion hitchhiker Sissy Hankshaw, braless and free, makes her way across the confused and paranoid America of the 1970s, gathering knowledge and experience, friends and suitors, and all sorts of unusual acquaintances

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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