Even cowgirls get the blues.

English language

Published April 4, 1993 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
978-0-553-26611-5
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4 stars (24 reviews)

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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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3 stars

Definitely an entertaining and unique read... well, 2/3rds of it at least. The book moves along at a really odd pace and sometimes I felt like the author was wasting paper, trying to shove his wit down the reader's throat. Regardless, the story of Sissy Hankshaw and her hitchhiking thumbs was amusing and kept me turning the page. I really wish Robbins would have expanded on the whole 'Clockwork People living in the caves waiting for time to end' stuff and left out all the useless crap in the end. It seemed like the author suddenly realized that the story had run on too long, decides to waste some pages explaining that the story has run on too long, and then abruptly tries to tie all loose ends.

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