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Perfume : the story of a murderer / Patrick Suskind ; translated from the German by John E. Woods.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780375725845 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780394550848 :
- ISBN: 0375725849 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0394550846 :
- Physical Description: 255 p. ; 23 cm.
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1986.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translation of: Das Parfum. |
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| Subject: | Perfumes > Fiction. Businessmen > Fiction. Businesswomen > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Horror fiction. German fiction. Historical fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Elkford Public Library | FC SUS (Text) | 35170000240341 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
An odorless baby found orphaned in a Paris gutter in 1738 grows to become a monster obsessed with his perfect sense of smell and a desire to capture, by any means, the ultimate scent that will make him human. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Follows an odorless baby found orphaned in Paris in 1738 as he grows into a monster obsessed with his perfect sense of smell and a desire to capture, by any means, the ultimate scent that will make him human. - Random House, Inc.
The introduction, discussion questions, and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of Patrick Süskind's Perfume . We hope they will provide you with a variety of approaches to this vividly imagined historical novel. Set in eighteenth-century France, Perfume explores the evolution of a remorseless killer during an era of intense contradictions, an age in which poverty, filth, and superstition coexisted uneasily with the Enlightenment's ideals of progress, liberty, and reason. - Random House, Inc.
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one manâs indulgence in his greatest passionâhis sense of smellâleads to murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime giftâan absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouilleâs genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the âultimate perfumeââthe scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.Â
Translated from the German by John E. Woods.
