Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel)
LC Class | PZ4.R636 Ev PS3568.O233 | |
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1976 novel by Tom Robbins.[1]
Plot summary
Sissy Hankshaw, the novel's protagonist, is a woman born with enormously large thumbs who considers her mutation a gift.[2] The novel covers various topics, including free love, feminism, drug use, birds, political rebellion, animal rights, body odor, religion, and yams.
Sissy capitalizes on the size of her thumbs by becoming a
Film adaptation
The novel was made into a 1993 film directed by
Literary significance and criticism
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In popular culture
- John Cale, formerly of The Velvet Underground, named a song and album after the novel.
- The band Nightmare of You based the song "Thumbelina" on the book.
- The band The Gaslight Anthem titled a song on their album The '59 Sound after the novel.
- Rodney Crowell named a song after the novel that was recorded by Emmylou Harris on her Blue Kentucky Girl album.[4]
- James Lee Stanley released an album of the same name, intended as a soundtrack to the novel.
- Matthew Milia of the band Frontier Ruckus released a mixtape titled "Even F*ckboys Get the Blues", a play on the novel's title.
Development history
The novel was originally to be published by Doubleday as they had right-of-first-refusal to Robbins's second book. However Robbins terminated his contract with Doubleday for a better offer from editor Ted Solotaroff and Bantam Books. Bantam was mass-paperback publisher, and they auctioned the rights for hardcover to Houghton Mifflin.
Partial publication history
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was first published in 1976 by Houghton Mifflin. It was concurrently released as both a hardcover and trade paperback novel. It was later released as a mass-market paperback by Bantam Books.
- First hardcover edition: ISBN 0-395-24305-X, Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
- First trade paperback edition: ISBN 0-395-24510-9, Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
- First mass-market paperback edition Bantam Books, 1977. Reissued in 1990 with ISBN 978-0-553-34949-8
References
- ^ goodreads (2012). "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". goodreads. Goodreads Inc. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ BookRags (2012). "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Study Guide & Notes". BookRags. BookRags, Inc. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ Gary Indiana (1993). "Gus Van Sant". BOMB Magazine. Bomb Magazine and New Art Publications. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ "Blue Kentucky Girl (Remastered) Emmylou Harris". iTunes Preview. Apple, Inc. 2004. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
External links
- "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues – Language Over Story" by Dan Geddes, The Satirist, November 1999