The subordination of love to social causes, the abrogation of personal freedom, and the failure of Christianity to allow for a fulfilling life connect Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976) to other Tom robbins novels. Each of these themes reappears in other works: for example, Robbins criticizes 1980s greed and its distortion of personal commitment in Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994). In Still Life with Woodpecker (1980), Princess Leigh-Cheri's environmental activism and Bernard Mickey Wrangle's violent anarchism are proved to be of less merit than their romantic attachment to.....
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