Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

Check out this NatGeo video for a look! Why You Should Read It An endangered species to this day, the whooping crane is the tallest bird in North America and is largely known for its hopping, skipping mating dance. Known to spend winters in the Aransas Wildlife Refuge in Texas and summers in their Alberta-Northwest Territories nesting grounds, these giant cranes suddenly disappear in the midst of our lovely little tale.Īuthorities are vexed, of course, because they are the last surviving flock of whooping cranes on the planet. Interestingly enough, the catalyst that brings together cowgirls, Chink, Sissy, FBI, and other agents of destruction is these gosh-darned whooping cranes. And it is about love, of course (aren’t all of Robbins’ books?) The Catalyst It is about the role that women might play in a healthier, more conscious evolution of humankind. It is about our human connection to the natural world. Robbins trying to get at anyway? Well, as far as I can tell (and as concisely as I can put it into words), this book is about the nature of time and our relationship to it. What is it all down on paper for? What is good old Mr. If you want to know more about those things, my friends, you’ll have to find them out for yourself. Robbins’ aversion to traditionally-acceptable psychiatric methods, Julian’s need to appease his “high society” friends, and the Countess who (largely) makes the whole story possible. Phew! Now that that’s out of the way … what the back cover won’t tell you about is Sissy’s “condition”, 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 … ” Julian, Mohawk by birth, asthmatic aesthete and husband by disposition. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match: hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bag… FEATURING … Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding Cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. “STARRING … Sissy Hankshaw – flawlessly beautiful, almost. This is what the back cover of the book will tell you. But now, as I just finished the 365th-page last night, I’m finally getting around to an honest review of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins. I did so before I had fully read the book in its entirety. Some months back, I posted an article with my Favorite Quotes from Even Cowgirls Get The Blues.