![]() ![]() He distills human nature down to its reptilian, mammalian, and floral ingredients and stimulates philosophical thoughtīy giving us a whiff of the the exact makeup of the intense eau de vivre that we humans subconsciously secrete from our mental pores. Robbins' literary style is not for everyone, but that's not to say that his books won't set neurons firing and hormones racing in one direction or another, no matter whom they might belong to. To eliminate the agitation and disappointment of desire, we need but awaken to the fact that we have everything we want and need right now. In Jitterbug Perfume, he reduces the world to its basic essences - sex, smells, selfishness - and does so through characters who are caricatures of ourselves: caricatures because they will say what our hormone-saturated body parts long to say and ask what our higher-order neurons long to ask. Jitterbug Perfume 1ST Edition Tom Robbins 16 Hardcover 4 offers from 250.00 B is for Beer by Tom Robbins (2) Paperback 1 Paperback 6 offers from 36.78 Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins () 179 Paperback 11 offers from 9. ![]() His cockamamie imagery will make you simultaneously chuckle and cringe with nervous excitement as you realize life is actually as upside-down as he portrays it in fiction. In Jitterbug Perfume, published in 1985, Tom Robbins combines realism with fantasy and comedy to tell his tale of intertwined lives across centuries. Tom Robbins has a talent for witty prose that borders on the obscenely poetic. ![]()
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