Starring Sissy Hanshaw--flawlessly beautiful,  almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a  quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your  heart, your hopes, and your sleeping  bags...

Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the  smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink,  lascivious guru of yams and yang. Julian, Mohawk by  birth; asthmatic esthete and husband by disposition.  Dr. Robbins, preventive psychiatrist and reality  instructor...

Follow Sissy's  amazing odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the  Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and  ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously  drawn-out climax...

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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

"The best fiction, so far,  to come out of the American  counterculture."—Chicago Tribune Book World

“Even Cowgirls Get the Blues comes as a magical gift, a brilliant affirmation of private visions and private wishes and their power to transform life and death.” —The Nation

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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.

Starring Sissy Hanshaw--flawlessly beautiful,     almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a    quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your    heart, your hopes, and your sleeping    bags...

Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the    smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink,     lascivious guru of yams and yang. Julian, Mohawk by    birth; asthmatic esthete and husband by disposition.    Dr. Robbins, preventive psychiatrist and reality    instructor...

Follow Sissy's    amazing odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the    Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and    ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously    drawn-out climax...

Tom Robbins has been called “a vital natural resource” by The Oregonian, “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world” by the Financial Times of London, 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.