Jitterbug Perfume

Tom Robbins

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Bantam
01 September 1990

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science Fiction

Jitterbug Perfume.

is an epic.

"" A

wild comic rip through eternity and beyond.""-The Detroit News

A genre-blending romp of a novel that ""celebrates the joy of individual expression and self-reliance"" (Saturday Review), from the New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Woodpecker

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.

By: Tom Robbins
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 261g
ISBN: 9780553348989
ISBN 10: 0553348981
Pages: 342
Publication Date: 01 September 1990
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , A / AS level , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Jitterbug Perfume

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