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Perfume The Story of a Murderer

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ISBN-10: 0375725849

ISBN-13: 9780375725845

Edition: 1986 (Reprint)

Authors: Patrick Suskind, John E. Woods

List price: $17.00
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An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an 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 Grenouille's 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 frest-cut…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/13/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Patrick Suskind was born in Germany in 1949. Kurt Cobain, singer and songwriter for Nirvana, was a fan of Suskind's work and based a song on Perfume, a novel that had already developed a cult following in Europe and America.