EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES
Sissy Hankshaw, the novel’s protagonist, is a woman born with enormously large thumbs who considers her mutation a gift.[2] The novel covers various topics, including free love, feminism, drug use, birds, political rebellion, animal rights, body odor, religion, and yams.
Sissy capitalizes on the size of her thumbs by becoming a hitchhiker and subsequently travels to New York. The character becomes a model for The Countess, a male homosexual tycoon of menstrual hygiene products. The tycoon introduces Sissy to a staid Mohawk named Julian Gitche, whom she later marries. 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, who is presented as a hermetic mystic and, at one point writes on a cave wall, “I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. 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. Robbins also inserts himself into the novel (as a character).
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LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
Love in the Time of Cholera (Spanish: El amor en los tiempos del cólera) is a novel written in Spanish by Colombian Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez and published in 1985. Edith Grossman‘s English translation was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1988.
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THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG
The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975.
Abbey’s most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term “monkeywrench,” often used as a verb, has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems.[citation needed]
In 1985, Dream Garden Press released a special 10th anniversary edition of the book featuring illustrations by R. Crumb, plus a chapter titled “Seldom Seen at Home” that had been deleted from the original edition.[1] Crumb’s illustrations were used for a limited-edition calendar based on the book.[2] The most recent edition was released in 2006 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
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HUMBOLDT’S GIFT
Humboldt’s Gift is a 1975 novel by Canadian-American author Saul Bellow. It won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow’s winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.