$25.99
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 September 1990
Summary
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). …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553348989 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553348981 |
| Author: | Tom Robbins |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 1990 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 132mm x 20mm |
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Critics 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.”—The 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
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” by Fernanda Pivano of Italy’s Corriere della Sera. His works include Jitterbug Perfume, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. A Southerner by birth, Tom Robbins lived in and around Seattle from 1962 until he passed away in 2025.
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