It also distances us from the characters, who often seem to be arbitrary constructions of the author’s mind, every bit as much as the novel’s ideas.Įven Cowgirls Get the Blues follows the life of Sissy Hankshaw, a Richmond Virginia girl born with unusually large thumbs. This self-consciousness is a distancing mechanism that serves as a disclaimer to the many philosophical ideas presented in this book. Its self-consciousness, best seen in Robbins’ recurring statements of what “the author” does or doesn’t know, serves Robbins as a means of humanizing his author and assuring us of the author’s lack of omniscience. Tom Robbins’ Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a self-conscious novel-a novel that knows it is a novel, and reminds you of this fact at every opportunity.
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