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Potentially Cowgirls Become a Blues occurs as successful 1976 novel by Tom Robbins made into a less-successful 1993 movie by Gus Van Sant. Cowgirls tells the story of Sissy Hankshaw, the woman born sustaining a mutation (she would not call for it the defect) giving her tremendously big thumbs. A novel occurs as transgressive romp, covering topics from either homosexuality and free love to drug use and political rebellion to animal rights and body odor and religions. Milquetoast makes the virtually all of her thumbs by becoming a hitchhiker. Her travels choose her to Future York, in which she becomes the model for the transvestite feminine hygiene products mogul world health organization introduces her to the human who she may marry, the sedate Mohawk named Julian Gitche. Within her late travels she encounters, among several others, the sexually open cowgirl named Bonanza Jellybean and an itinerant escapee from a Japanese internment camps happily mislabeled "the Chink". Robbins eventually inserts himself into a novel as a character also.

"Cowgirls" was the favored of the late 1970s anarchist hippie counterculture. Robbins writes short chapters filled by having philosophic asides & quips (like noting that because ameba reproduce by binary fission, the 1st amoeba is still alive) & typically speaking to a reader (chapter 88 begins by owning a teller noting that the book okay, hwhen as numbers of chapters as a piano has keys.) Informal but intricate, it's the model of a cult book. Fans might understand training complete a phrase, "ha ha ho ho and ...."

Ebert: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Review by Roger Ebert, one-half stars.

IMDB: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Introduction and cast list.