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ISBN: 9781842430354
Price: £9.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 342pp
Rights: UK
Pub. Date: April 2001

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Tom Robbins has been called "a vital natural resource" by The Portland Oregonian, "one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world" by the FT, 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. He is the author of Villa Incognito, Still Life With Woodpecker, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Even Cowgirls get the Blues and Jitterbug Perfume.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

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 is actually 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 of two left.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'an extraordinary piece of comic writing combined with the ability to make a short paperback book travel over a period of a thousand years tracing the life of Pan, the god of nature. It's amazing.'
- Toyah Wilcox, Guardian Unlimited

'Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller'
- Thomas Pynchon

'This crazy masterpiece of a novel will leave you laughing - inside and out - for weeks.'
- Lighter Life Magazine [read the full review]