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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Audio Book
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Author:
Tom Robbins
Reader: Michael Nouri
Meet Sissy Hankshaw, a charming, small-town girl with big-time dreams. Her travels take her from Virginia to Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands. "With Michael Nouri's narration, Robbins's intelligently wacky credo of love is as wild a success as the last flock of whooping cranes found in the novel... Listeners couldn't ask for a better guide through Tom Robbins's adventures in love."—AudioFile
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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Audio CDs ( 12 ) |
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Publish Date: 07/01/2007
ISBN: 9781597770965
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Synopsis:
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Sissy Hankshaw, a beautiful girl with freakishly large thumbs, is the hitchhiking heroine of Tom Robbins's 1970s cult classic. She's adventurous, footloose, and promiscuous, unwilling to be tied down, even by Julian, the Mohawk Indian who loves her and badly wants her to stay in one place. As in most Tom Robbins novels, the prose bubbles and pops with psychedelic sizzle, the plot is packed with an endless parade of loveable eccentrics (cowgirls, lovers, psychiatrists, and federal agents), and Robbins's rollicking philosophy sets the reader's brain and loins on fire. Among this book's many rabid fans, Robbins can count filmmaker Gus Van Sant (who filmed the movie adaptation) and literary giant Thomas Pynchon.
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Author Bio:
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Robbins had two sisters--twins--and was the grandson of two preachers; his mother taught Sunday school and wrote religious stories for children. His father was an executive for a power company. He played basketball in high school, then attended Washington & Lee for two years; he was expelled from his fraternity for throwing biscuits. He hitchhiked around the country, then spent three years in the Air Force, stationed in the Far East. Following this, he lived in Seattle where, among other things, he wrote headlines for the "Dear Abby" column for the local newspaper. Eventually graduating from college, he went to the Graduate School of Far Eastern Studies at University of Washington, then became an editor and art critic at the Seattle Times. He received a $2,500 advance for his first novel, ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION, which was published in 1971. Since then, Robbins has been a consistent bestseller.
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