Jitterbug Perfume
Books | Fiction / Literary
4.4
(1.3K)
Tom Robbins
“[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 WoodpeckerJitterbug 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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Author
Tom Robbins
Pages
352
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
2003-06-17
ISBN
0553897926 9780553897920
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"Despite the older male/younger woman dynamic, this is maybe my favorite Tom Robbins book. "
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"The most beautiful, capturing, and eye-opening work of story-telling I've ever read. It opens a new door in your concious, "Erleichda" ;)"
Alexandra Jones
"Another excellent read!"
Carol Blakley
"every one of his books contains a disturbing relationship where a much older man has sex with a way too young woman/girl and teaches her about herself. this guy is a creep"
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"Tom robbins is frighteningly profound and dangerously funny and I want to be friends with him…every so often I’d surface from the thick of the plot to massage my face muscles that had grown sore from laughing so much"
Vic Gonzalez
"Funny and talk about all of life a must read!!!"
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Rachelle Bose
"On m’y to-read list "
Jaime Garno
"Bawdy and Brilliant. Everyone should read at least one book by Tom Robbins, (except tight-asses) and this is my pick. Buy two copies because one is going to be drenched when you spew with laughter. "
Bill Boyett
"I enjoyed the story very much, my only complaint is that the language can get to be a little much"
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"Tom Robbins has such a unique and weird style."
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