false 16879577 231809 737498 0553050680 9780553050684 51 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183848100m/737498.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183848100s/737498.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/737498.Jitterbug_Perfume 4.13 269 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.


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