My job was to stay in there with him, shoulder to shoulder, providing a constant source of feedback, challenge, creative alternatives, gut reactions, technical correction, and keeping him up for it, always encouraging and sincerely optimistic.Ī lot of folks think Jitterbug Perfume is one of his best novels, and so do I. He took the process of conception, research, trial and error, moving things around, changing voices and pitch very seriously, wrote slowly and carefully, revised constantly, developing, refining and evolving this novel over the course of about two years. He was a real southern gentleman, and welcomed intellectual discourse about his theme, characters, and intentions, from the inside.

Tom would read out loud from his work in progress, and I would comment. His most notable works are 'seriocomedies' (also known as 'comedy drama'), such as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (9780553348989) - PaperBack - Modern & Contemporary Fiction General. Thomas Eugene Robbins (born July 22, 1932) 1 is a best-selling and prolific American novelist. We did in fact drive around in his convertible, and eat a lot of great meals, all the while having academic, cerebral flights of fancy about the work, art and commerce, love and death, women, children, and being a father. Jitterbug Perfume from Dymocks online bookstore. So the two of us went to Palm Springs, the Rosarito Beach Resort in Baja, Mexico, and up to his place up at La Conner, near Seattle, Washington. As a successful writer with large and steady following, Tom Robbins had the leverage to stipulate in his contract the unusual provision that his editor would accompany him on three holidays to resorts of his choice in order to discuss and edit the work in progress, which turned out to be Jitterbug Perfume.

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