Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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.

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.

Genres fictionhumornovelsliteraturemagical realismcontemporaryliterary fictionbook clubclassicsadult

416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1,1976

Literary awards

washington state book award,

This edition

Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published: January 1, 1977 by Bantam Books
ISBN: 9780553101164
ASIN: 0553101161
Language: English

About the author

tom robbins

Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas"). Robbins lived in La Conner, Washington from 1970, where he wrote nine of his books. His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. His last work, published in 2014, was Tibetan Peach Pie, a self-declared "un-memoir".