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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tom Robbins
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:384
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781842430248
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
Imprint No Exit Press
Publication Date 22 November 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'This is one of those special novels - a piece of working magic, warm funny and sane - that you just want to ride off into the sunset with' - Thomas Pynchon Long-awaited new edition of classic Robbins novel that is still as fresh now as when originally published. Starring Sissy Hanshaw - flawlessly beautiful, almost - a small-time girl with big-time dreams and a thumb to match, you'll oh so easily find her hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes and your sleeping bag. Delicious.

Author Biography

Tom Robbins has been called "a vital natural resource" by The Portland Oregonian, "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world" by the FT, and "the most dangerous writer in the world today" by Fernanda Pivano of Italy's Corriere della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle since 1962. He is the author of six other novels including Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and Still Life with Woodpecker.

Reviews

"This is one of those special novels--a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane - that you just want to ride off into the sunset with." - Thomas Pynchon