Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1976 novel by Tom Robbins.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues tells the story of Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with a mutation (though she would not call it a defect nor a mutation; she would call it a gift) giving her enormously large thumbs. The novel is a transgressive romp, covering topics from free love to drug use and political rebellion to animal rights and body odor and religions. Sissy makes the most of her thumb...
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1976 novel by Tom Robbins.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues tells the story of Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with a mutation (though she would not call it a defect nor a mutation; she would call it a gift) giving her enormously large thumbs. The novel is a transgressive romp, covering topics from 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 male 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.
"Cowgirls" was a favorite of the...
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