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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Tom Robbins (1976)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingX
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age18+
Goodreads3.79

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentExplicit
LanguageStrong

Hero archetypes

Outcast / Loner

Heroine archetypes

Rebel / Revolutionary

Protagonist archetypes

Fish out of WaterEnsemble Cast

Synopsis

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.

Tags

Literary FictionSatirePicaresqueMagical RealismRoad Trip