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      Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

      by Tom Robbins
      Published
      Dec 1981
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      416
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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.

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