BOOK: Jitterbug Perfume

Jitterbug Perfume
Tom Robbins

As usual I am astounded by Robbins daring with the written word. His plots are wildly thoughtful and usually make you wonder how he hasn't thought up an anti gravity machine before now. Definitely not for everyone, but I am heartily amused by his whacked out sense of style and humor.

"Amazon Review: 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 is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon becaused it is leaking and there is only a drop of two left."