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A classic tale of eccentric adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Woodpecker
“This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon
“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
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 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. As Tom Robbins’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.
“This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon
“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
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 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. As Tom Robbins’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.
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“could not finish this… was not a fan of how this man wrote women… weird, creepy, and minimizing of the feminine experience. very wordy and super unnecessary.”Allison
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“The writing is delightful but the story is a drag.”
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“This was one of the strangest books I have ever read, with such an odd concept for characters and plot alike. It dragged a bit for the first bit (honestly maybe more like the first two-thirds) but I quite enjoyed it. There is definitely an undertone of man-writing-woman characters, but (and I’m not sure if this is very feminist of me), if you can try to kind of ignore that, the book is enjoyable. Wacky, inappropriate, fascinating, magical, and weird.
EDIT: just adding on to this that Tom Robbins just passed 2 days ago…crazy timing. Rest in peace!”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” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere della Sera. His works include Jitterbug Perfume, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. A Southerner by birth, Tom Robbins lived in and around Seattle from 1962 until he passed away in 2025.
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