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ISBN: 1842430246
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Price: £9.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 366pp
Rights: UK
Pub. Date: November 2001

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tom Robbins has been called "a vital natural resource" by The Portland Oregonian, "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world" by the FT, and "the most dangerous writer in the world today" by Fernanda Pivano of Italy's Corriere della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle since 1962. He is the author of Villa Incognito, Still Life With Woodpecker, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Even Cowgirls get the Blues and Jitterbug Perfume.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

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; a lascivious guru of yams and yang. Julian; a Mohawk by birth; asthmatic aesthete 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...

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

This is one of those special novels - a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane - that you just want to ride off into the sunset with. - Thomas Pynchon,