The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of
fact, all "bursting with dimples and hormones"--and the FBI has never seen
anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost
overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash
goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all.
Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins's classic
tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables
on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands
of sexuality, wild