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  • Published: 1 September 1990
  • ISBN: 9780553348989
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $32.99
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Jitterbug Perfume

A Novel



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.

  • Published: 1 September 1990
  • ISBN: 9780553348989
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins is the author of Another Roadside Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life with Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All and Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - highly original novels that have left their mark on our culture. He lives near Seattle.

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Praise for Jitterbug Perfume

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

"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