Jitterbug Perfume - Hardcover

Robbins, Tom

4.23

76,580 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553050680 ISBN 13: 9780553050684

Publisher: Bantam USA, 1984

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Jitterbug Perfume
is an epic.

Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris time).

It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle.

The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god.

If the liquid in the bottle actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left.
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Review:

""Jitterbug Perfume has a large and exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interested in immortality and/or perfume... Go see for yourself; you'll have a good time."--"The Washington Post

""Jitterbug Perfume" has a large and exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interested in immortality and/or perfume... Go see for yourself; you'll have a good time."--"The Washington Post"

"Jitterbug Perfume has a large and exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interested in immortality and/or perfume... Go see for yourself; you'll have a good time."—"Washington Post"
“Robbins again celebrates the joy of individual expression and self-reliance. He lays before us the time honored warts and hairs of the world’s philosophies—problems with religion, war, politics, family, marriage and sex—and leaves no twist or turn unstoned. —"Saturday Review
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"Jitterbug Perfume has a large and exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interested in immortality and/or perfume... Go see for yourself; you'll have a good time."--"Washington Post"
"Robbins again celebrates the joy of individual expression and self-reliance. He lays before us the time honored warts and hairs of the world's philosophies--problems with religion, war, politics, family, marriage and sex--and leaves no twist or turn unstoned. --"Saturday Review
"

"Jitterbug Perfume has a large andexotic cast of characters, all of whom are interestedin immortality and/or perfume... Go see foryourself; you'll have a good time." "Washington Post"
Robbins again celebrates the joy of individual expression and self-reliance. He lays before us the time honored warts and hairs of the world s philosophies problems with religion, war, politics, family, marriage and sex and leaves no twist or turn unstoned. "Saturday Review
""

"Jitterbug Perfume has a large andexotic cast of characters, all of whom are interestedin immortality and/or perfume... Go see foryourself; you'll have a good time." Washington Post
Robbins again celebrates the joy of individual expression and self-reliance. He lays before us the time honored warts and hairs of the world s philosophies problems with religion, war, politics, family, marriage and sex and leaves no twist or turn unstoned. Saturday Review
"

"Jitterbug Perfume has a large and exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interested in immortality and/or perfume... Go see for yourself; you'll have a good time."--Washington Post

"Robbins again celebrates the joy of individual expression and self-reliance. He lays before us the time honored warts and hairs of the world's philosophies--problems with religion, war, politics, family, marriage and sex--and leaves no twist or turn unstoned. --Saturday Review

About the Author:

Tom Robbins has been called "a vital natural resource" by The Oregonian, "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world" by the Financial Times of London, and "the most dangerous writer in the world today" by Fernanda Pivano of Italy's Corriere della Sera. A Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in and around Seattle since 1962.

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