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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
417 pages
A psychedelic, thumb-tripping joyride through the American West that champions radical freedom and linguistic acrobatics.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like taking a road trip with a brilliant, slightly unhinged philosopher who refuses to look at a map. It is a wildly digressive, sun-baked journey that prioritizes the sheer joy of language and the pursuit of radical freedom over traditional plot mechanics. The prose is exuberant and bursting with bizarre metaphors, pulling you into a psychedelic, countercultural atmosphere where the absurd is treated with earnest reverence. It meanders through bawdy humor, feminist rebellion, and mystical musings, creating a mood that is both chaotic and deeply liberating. This is a perfect match for readers who delight in linguistic playfulness, surreal Americana, and stories that gleefully dismantle societal norms in favor of a wilder, freer way of existing.
- Mood
- psychedelic
- freewheeling
- absurd
- sun-baked
- Tone
- irreverent
- philosophical
- whimsical
- satirical
- bawdy
- Pace
- meandering
- Themes
- radical freedom · sexual liberation · rebellion against norms · the absurdity of existence · magic of the mundane
- The writing
- Exuberant, pun-heavy, wildly metaphorical, and playfully digressive.
- The arc
- A chaotic, joyful rebellion that culminates in a bittersweet but transcendent acceptance of life's wildness.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love countercultural philosophy, linguistic acrobatics, and surreal, rule-breaking fiction.
Content notes
- sexual content
- drug use
- animal death
- crude language
About the book
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.
Description from Open Library.
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