Perfume River

Robert Olen Butler

Original title: Perfume river

earliest edition we have, 2016 Thorndike Press, 2016 352 pages

Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam War protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain under the surface, whereas...

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Editions we hold

Perfume River edition · 2017 · Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 288 pages · 9780802126955
Perfume River edition · 2017 · Oldcastle Books, Limited · 256 pages · 9781843448891
Perfume river edition · 2016 · Atlantic Monthly Press · 273 pages · 9780802125750
Perfume River edition · 2016 · Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 272 pages · 9780802190109
Perfume River edition · 2016 · Oldcastle Books, Limited · 254 pages · 9781843449454
Perfume River edition · 2016 · Thorndike Press · 352 pages · 9781410493651

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