Surreal sensual and profoundly funny this is your chance to become acquaintedwith the work of Tom Robbins. He has been described as the most dangerouswriter in ... » 

Surreal sensual and profoundly funny this is your chance to become acquaintedwith the work of Tom Robbins. He has been described as the most dangerouswriter in the world and by the Financial Times as one of the wildest andmost entertaining novelists in the world today and from the opening sentenceof the story Amoebae leave no fossils to the Special Bonus Parable at theend you will be smiling all the way. Sissy Hankshaw is a beautiful andconfused young woman who uses her abnormally large thumbs to turn hitchhikinginto an art form which helps her escape from smalltown smallthinkingRichmond Virginia and on to an odyssey of hope and revelation. Arrested fortrying to hitchhike an ambulance twice coming and going and released notleast for the frustration she caused the fingerprinter Sissy becomes a modelfor the Countess the rich inventor and manufacturer of the worlds mostpopular feminine hygiene products. He also owns the Rubber Rose ranch whereunhappy women can be taught how to deal with even the most intimate beautyproblems. The ranch has a lake which is on the flight path of the last flock ofwild whooping cranes left in existence and when Sissy is sent there for a photoshoot the regime at the ranch is overthrown by the cowgirls who work there.Although married to Julian Sissy finds true love at the ranch as well asenlightenment from Chink a nearby hermit and guru. When the whooping craneswont leave the lake the situation becomes a national emergency. Sissys thumbsbecome more sinister and to escape their violence she returns to the ranch tojoin former loves as they square up to a shootout with the FBI. Threads ofreality and sound philosophies do run through this actionpacked adventure butmanage not to spoil the fun. Kirkus UK «