num_pages: 366
description: 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..."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"
language: English
title: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
titlecomplete: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
genres: American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Magical Realism, Literature, Classics, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 53929
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd