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PLOT ''Cowgirls'' tells the story of Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with a Mutation (she would not call it a Defect ) giving her enormously large Thumb s. The novel is a transgressive romp, covering topics from Homosexuality and Free Love to Drug Use and political Rebellion to Animal Rights and Body Odor and Religions . Sissy makes the most of her thumbs by becoming a Hitchhiker . Her travels take her to New York, where she becomes a model for a Transvestite feminine hygiene products mogul who introduces her to the man who she will marry, a staid Mohawk named Julian Gitche. In her later travels she encounters, among many others, a sexually open Cowgirl named Bonanza Jellybean and an itinerant escapee from the Japanese Internment Camp s happily mislabeled "the Chink ". Robbins finally inserts himself into the novel as a character as well. "Cowgirls" was a favorite of the late 1970s Anarchist Hippie Counterculture . Robbins writes short chapters filled with philosophical asides and quips (such as noting that because amoebas reproduce by Binary Fission , the first Amoeba is still alive) and often speaking to the reader (chapter 88 begins with the narrator noting that the book now has as many chapters as a Piano has Key s). Informal but intricate, it's the model of a Cult Book . Fans will know how to complete the sentence, "ha ha ho ho and ...." FILM VERSION The novel was made into a 1993 film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Uma Thurman , Lorraine Bracco , Pat Morita , Angie Dickinson , Keanu Reeves , John Hurt , Rain Phoenix , Ed Begley Jr. , Carol Kane , Sean Young , Crispin Glover , Roseanne Arnold , Buck Henry , Grace Zabriskie , and Treva Jeffryes . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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