Tom Robbins' novel "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" was made into a movie by Gus ... a restless spirit born with unusually large thumbs. Over the course of her adventure, Sissy’s thumbs serve ...

Sissy Hankshaw (Uma Thurman) is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking ... she befriends Bonanza Jellybean (Rain Phoenix), one of the cowgirls at the beauty ranch.

If so, you have yet to see “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” Book-It Repertory Theatre ... of framing the 400-plus pages odyssey of giant-thumbed hitchhiker queen Sissy Hanksaw (played here ...

idiosyncratic novels including “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” about a hitchhiker gifted with unnaturally large thumbs, and “Still Life With Woodpecker,” a love story set inside a pack of ...

Robbins’ characters were over the top. They included Sissy Hankshaw, the hitchhiker with 9-inch thumbs in “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues;” and Switters, the pacifist CIA operative in love with ...

NEW YORK — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Jitterbug ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and ...

Tom Robbins, the celebrated author whose novels included Skinny Legs and All, Jitterbug Perfume, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, died Sunday, Feb. 9, The New York Times reports. He was 92.

Among them were Sissy Hankshaw, the hitchhiker with the 9-inch thumbs in “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” and Switters, the pacifist CIA operative in love with a nun in “Fierce Invalids Home f ...