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bonnie l wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I love Tom Robbins' writing style. Bohemian wisdom in vivid technicolor craziness. ”
Tom M wrote this review Monday, November 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Fabulous, funny, astounding inventiveness.”
John D wrote this review Wednesday, October 7 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“AMAZING!”
Carra R wrote this review Thursday, August 27 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“The book is better than the movie, but both are fun in a campy kind of way.”
Brian H wrote this review Sunday, August 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Like the 18th time I've read this. It gets old now that I'm 40 and settled, but there's a certain thrill to re-reading this and realizing how much of an impact Robbins had on me at an impressionable age.”
Jack B wrote this review Thursday, July 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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Cara G wrote this review Friday, June 26 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Couldn' finish it. Boring.”
Marcel Dekker wrote this review Tuesday, June 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Even Cowgirls Get the Blues tells the story of Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with a mutation (she would not call it a defect) giving her enormously large thumbs. The novel is a transgressive romp, covering topics from homosexuality and free love to drug use and political rebellion to animal rights and body odor and religions. Sissy makes the most of her thumbs by becoming a hitchhiker. Her travels take her to New York, where she becomes a model for the Countess, a homosexual tycoon of feminine hygiene products, who introduces her to the man whom she will marry, a staid Mohawk named Julian Gitche. In her later travels she encounters, among many others, a sexually open cowgirl named Bonanza Jellybean and an itinerant escapee from the Japanese internment camps happily mislabeled "the Chink." Robbins finally inserts himself into the novel as a character as well.
Wendy B wrote this review Wednesday, April 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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