Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

<b>A classic tale of eccentric adventure from the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Still Life with Woodpecker</i></b><br><b> </b><br><b>This is one of those special novels--a piece of working magic warm funny and sane.--Thomas Pynchon<br></b><br><b><i>Even Cowgirls Get the Blues</i> comes as a magical gift a brilliant affirmation of private visions and private wishes and their power to transform life and death.--<i>The Nation</i></b> <p/>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. <p/>Freedom its prizes and its prices is a major theme of <i>Even Cowgirls Get the Blues</i>. As Tom Robbins's 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.