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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Even Cowgirls Get the Blues about Paperback, Bantam, Woodpecker with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary?
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conversations.value: Paperback, 1977 Bantam first printing, this is 12th printing 1980., 415 pages by the author, author of Still Life with a Woodpecker.
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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Paperback, Bantam, Woodpecker with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary?
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conversations.value: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel): Sissy Hankshaw, the novel\'s protagonist, is a woman born with enormously large thumbs who considers her mutation a gift.\nThe novel covers various topics, including free love, drug use, birds, political rebellion, animal rights, body odor, religion, and yams.\nSissy capitalizes on the size of her thumbs by becoming a hitchhiker and subsequently travels to New York, United States (US).\nThe character becomes a model for The Countess, a male homosexual tycoon of feminine hygiene products.\nThe Tycoon introduces Sissy to a staid Mohawk named Julian Gitche, whom she later marries.\nIn 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.\nThe Chink is presented as a hermetic mystic and, at one point.\nwrites on a cave wall, "I believe in everything; nothing is sacred.\nI believe in nothing; everything is sacred".\nand frequently says "Ha Ha Ho Ho and Hee Hee".\nA flock of whooping cranes also makes frequent appearances throughout the novel, which includes details of their physical characteristics and migratory patterns.\nRobbins also inserts himself into the novel (as a character).
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conversations.value: Do you know the first long scene for the screenplay?
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conversations.value: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
  
  EXT. JULIAN'S APARTMENT NIGHT
  THE TAXI stops in front of Julian's building. It discharges its passengers.
  INT. JULIAN'S APARTMENT NIGHT
  INSIDE Howard mixes Scotch and sodas, Rupert fills a syringe from a vial of aminophylline he has taken from its place behind a gelatin salad mold in the refrigerator. He gives Julian an injection.
  RUPERT There, that ought to beat them bronchial buggers into submission.
  He turns to Sissy.
  RUPERT I was a medic in the Army. I really should have become a doctor. Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance and pills that cure boredom. I have pills to elevate moods and pills to open people's eyes to the awful truth...
  CARLA Too bad you don't have a pill for bullshit.
  Carla smiles as if she were joking, but she'd said it tartly. Rupert glares and takes a big bite of Scotch.
  HOWARD (changing the subject) Where do you live, Miss Hankshaw?
  SISSY I'm staying with the Countess.
  HOWARD I know, but where do you reside when you aren't visiting New York?
  SISSY I don't.
  HOWARD You don't?
  SISSY Well, no, I don't reside anywhere in particular. I just keep moving.
  Everyone looks a bit astonished including the recumbent Julian.
  HOWARD A traveler, eh?
  SISSY You might say that, although I don't think of it as traveling.
  CARLA How do you think of it?
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conversations.value: Do you know another medium length scene?
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conversations.value: The Chink escorts Sissy to a dark side of the depression and sits her down upon a pile of soft stuff: dried wheatgrass, faded Indian blankets and old down pillows without cases.
  SISSY (thinking) So this is how Jelly spends her visits to the Chink.
  A twanging noise sounds from the bowels of the nearby cave.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last long scene? End with the sentence '
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conversations.value: The swell of her belly has forced her to sleep on her back.
  CLOSE VIEW of Sissy's belly, and a little foot kicks from inside. Or is it a foot?
  VIEW INSIDE THE BELLY of Sissy's unborn baby. It is half- Japanese, one thirty-second Siwash and all thumbs.
  The moving thumbs are hitchhiking you.....
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