Tom Robbins' Jitterbug Perfume is $1.99 at Amazon. I've only read his Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Still Life With Woodpecker, but I can tell you a Tom Robbins book isn't like anything else. He's often labelled as a humorist, and his books do have humor, but I think that's a very limiting description. Some critic had described his books as garage door openers for the mind. I like that better. Well worth trying.
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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.
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