Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
 

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

by Tom Robbins

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.

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angbukaw
  • Rated 5 stars

On the right wall had been written:
I BELIEVE IN EVERYTHING; NOTHING IS SACRED. And on the left wall:
I BELIEVE IN NOTHING; EVERYTHING IS SACRED.


Tom Robbins is god. A god who can laugh and can make the likes of me laugh, too. And not believe in God and still hold everything dear.

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Kathy G
  • Rated 2 stars

I could not get into this book and put it on the table to go back to the library without finishing. Seemed fairly entertaining, but I just don't care for Robbins' style of writing I guess. I have been told his books are not for everyone.

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  • Rated 3.765537 stars
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  • Rated 3.714286 stars
 

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  • sarah c

    sarah c said:

    I loved this book! It was funny and interesting. what are some other good tom robbins books? I just got "fierce invalids home from hot climates."

    posted Monday, January 7 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
  • WOOD MONKEY

    wood monkey said:

    Not my favorite Tom Robbins. Forget this - read Skinny Legs & All

    posted Tuesday, December 4 2007
  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet said:

    loved this quirky book, but somebody tell, does her hitch hikers thumb have some symbolic meaning i missed?

    posted Saturday, August 18 2007
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