"Have you ever wanted to live forever? Then this book is for you! Jitterbug Perfume traces the lives of a man and woman who achieve immortality and live for millennia; their long lives take them through Bavarian kingdoms, Buddhist fiefdoms, Byzantine Constantinople and 17th century Paris. The ripples of their longevity touch a waitress in Seattle, her dowager-like mother in New Orleans, a pair of fragrance-selling French brothers. a Jamaican man who wears a crown of bees, and Pan, the slowly dying God of the Wild. Are you confused? Amused? A little bit of both? Just you wait. Robbins will have you laughing out loud and then marveling at the striking truths he unearths right under your nose."
"YOU NEED THIS BOOK IN YOUR LIFE! Lately I have been bouncing around from book to book, feeling unfulfilled by the stories I discovered nestled between their covers, but then this, this book right here, smacked me square in the face as if I had been hit by a solid, robust beet. From the first few paragraphs I was hooked into this whirlwind epic that laughs in the face of time, breaks all the rules, then remakes them upside down and inside out. I have fallen in love with this book and you most certainly will too, as certain as the world is round – as round as a beet."
Publisher Bantam
Publication Date 1990-04-01
Section Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Archived Staff Suggestions / Caitlyn T. / Liam K.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780553348989
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 or two left.
