James Lee Stanley released an album of the same name, intended as a soundtrack to the novel.Rodney Crowell named a song after the novel that was recorded by Emmylou Harris on her Blue Kentucky Girl album.The band The Gaslight Anthem titled a song on their album The '59 Sound after the novel.The band Nightmare of You based the song "Thumbelina" on the book.John Cale, formerly of The Velvet Underground, named a song and album after the novel.Robbins writes short chapters filled with philosophical asides and quips (such as noting that because amoebae reproduce by binary fission, the first amoeba is still alive), often speaking to the reader (chapter 88 begins with the narrator noting that the book now has as many chapters as a piano has keys). " has been considered by Gus Van Sant to be a ' hippy' novel. 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, Victoria Williams, Sean Young, Crispin Glover, Roseanne Arnold, Buck Henry, Grace Zabriskie, and Treva Jeffryes. Main article: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (film) Robbins also inserts himself into the novel (as a character).įilm, TV or theatrical adaptations I believe in nothing everything is sacred." and frequently says "Ha Ha Ho Ho and Hee Hee." A flock of whooping cranes also makes frequent appearances throughout the novel, which includes details of their physical characteristics and migratory patterns. The Chink is presented as a hermetic mystic and, at one point writes on a cave wall, "I believe in everything nothing is sacred. In her later travels, she encounters, among many others, a sexually open cowgirl named Bonanza Jellybean and an itinerant escapee from a Japanese internment camp happily mislabeled The Chink. The Tycoon introduces Sissy to a staid Mohawk named Julian Gitche, whom she later marries.
The character becomes a model for The Countess, a male homosexual tycoon of menstrual hygiene products. Sissy capitalizes on the size of her thumbs by becoming a hitchhiker and subsequently travels to New York.
The novel covers various topics, including free love, feminism, drug use, birds, political rebellion, animal rights, body odor, religion, and yams. Sissy Hankshaw, the novel's protagonist, is a woman born with enormously large thumbs who considers her mutation a gift. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a 1976 novel by Tom Robbins.
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