Jitterbug Perfume (1984) (edit title/settings)

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• Priscilla Pardito: unmarried waitress, part-time genius.
• Kudra: Wife of Alobar
• Alobar: Strives for immortality.
• Pan: A god, with a wicked stench
• Marcel Le Fever: AKA Bunny. Claude LeFever's cousin.
• Claude Le Fever: Bunny Le Fever's cousin. He is heir to the LeFever Company, and in charge of financial decisions.
• Bingo Pajama: A man at one with the bees, and seller of jamaican jasmine.
• Wiggs Dannyboy: Founder of the last laugh foundation
• Ricki: A waitress who works with Priscilla
• Wren: Alobar's favorite wife.
• Huxley Anne: Wiggs Dannyboy's Daughter.
• Trixie Melodian: Member of The Daughters of the Daily Special
• Alobar: former king wants to escape death
• Madame Devalier: A perfumer in New Orleans. Step-mother to Priscilla.
• Kudra: women sent into an arranged wedding at a young age former insense maker
• Sheila Gomez: Member of The Daughters of the Daily Special
• Luc LeFever: Founder of the LeFever Perfume company in France. Claude LeFever's Father.
• Mik: Alobar's dog, when he was king.
• Navin: Add a description of this character.
• Lily Devalier
• Wolfgang Morgenstern: An eccentric German doctor, and "the world's only double Nobel laureate," who is a member of the Last Laugh Foundation.
• Descartes

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• “There were critics who complained that at 23, rue Quelle Blague the beer tasted like lilac water and the perfumes smelled of hops. As to the quality of the beer we cannot testify – perhaps a taste of it today would leave us sadder Budweiser – but when it came to perfumery, the monks were not inexpert.”

• “The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is the more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.”

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• Seattle
• Paris
• New Orleans
• Constantinople
• Samye
• Aelfric
• Mississippi
• Boston
• Rome
• Argentina
• Egypt
• Greece
• India
• Bohemia

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Immortality: A goal of many in the book. Long passages are dedicated to what it means to fight death.
• The Beet: The strongest of vegetables.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Tom Robbins (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Leslie W. LePere (Artist)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: 84-45233
• Dewey: 813.54

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( R ) › Robbins, Tom
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

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