So, in some ways, though not entirely directly, the three were connected prior to the sessions, leading to Alligator dubbing ...

Sissy Hankshaw, the protagonist of “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” is born with oversized thumbs, which make her the world’s best hitchhiker. This is Robbins in a nutshell, a reminder that ...

“What I do,” Mr. Robbins once said, “is twine ideas and images into big subversive ... “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” about a hitchhiker gifted with unnaturally large thumbs, and ...

(Sun Sentinel / File) Though he kept writing into the 21st century, he continually chose titles that emanated the era’s Day-Glo whimsy, like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” (1976), “Half Asl ...

the protagonist in “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” who hitches her way through modern Western adventures, unembarrassed by her two abnormally large thumbs. For whatever reason, one Robbins ...

Paulus says she’s considering going as American Girl Doll Molly McIntire or her go-to costume: the large-thumbed Sissy Hankshaw from Tom Robbins’ 1976 novel “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.” ...

Robbins is probably best known for his 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, a book focused on Sissy Hankshaw, a woman with giant thumbs. The sexuality and bizarre imagery of the book have ...

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 ...

“Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” published in 1976, featured Sissy Hankshaw of Richmond, a hitchhiker renowned for her 9-inch thumbs ... author of “Big Stone Gap” and host of the Library ...