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About the book:
A picaresque following Sissy Hankshaw, born with enormous thumbs, who becomes the world's greatest hitchhiker and ends up at a ranch taken over by a group of radical cowgirls.
Robbins's most exuberant novel funny, philosophical, and genuinely interested in freedom and the body.
A product of its 1970s moment but written with enough wit that it hasn't dated as badly as it might have.
Reasonable secondhand condition.
Damage to front cover as pictured.
All pages intact and well bount.
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About the author:
Tom Robbins (1932 to present)
Born in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, in 1932 and raised in Virginia, Tom Robbins grew up with a love of language, nature, and mischief. After serving in the U.S. Air Force, he studied art and journalism before becoming a journalist and later a full-time novelist. His countercultural sensibility, formed in the 1960s and 70s, and his deep appreciation for the American West (he has lived in Washington state for decades) are central to his work.
His early success arrived with Another Roadside Attraction (1971), followed by the cult classic Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976). Robbins developed a wildly exuberant, metaphor-rich, playful prose style that mixes philosophy, eroticism, social satire, and cosmic whimsy. His novels are known for their linguistic fireworks, eccentric characters, and refusal to take anything too seriouslyincluding themselves.
Deeply influenced by the Beats (especially Jack Kerouac), Zen Buddhism, surrealism, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, and the American tall-tale tradition, Robbins in turn became a defining voice of American counterculture fiction. He has influenced writers who embrace linguistic playfulness, magical realism, and anti-authoritarian humour, and is adjacent to authors like Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, Thomas Pynchon, Douglas Adams, Christopher Moore, and later voices in quirky, philosophical American fiction.
Recurring preoccupations include the celebration of individual freedom, the absurdity of modern life, the sacredness of the natural world, the joys of sexuality and love, and the power of imagination to transform reality. Major works include Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, Still Life with Woodpecker, and Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.
Robbins has lived a relatively reclusive life in the Pacific Northwest and continues to be revered by generations of readers who discovered his books at formative moments.
Tom Robbinss influence on contemporary fiction lies in his joyful celebration of language and eccentricity. He showed that serious ideas could be delivered with wild humour and linguistic exuberance while remaining utterly unique in his blend of whimsy, wisdom, and verbal fireworks.
