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The Sweet-Scented Manuscript book. In 1956 Tito graduated from Indian Springs School, a private academy located south Tito Perdue was born in 1938 in Chile, South America where his father, an Alabama native, was employed as an electrical engineer with the Braden Copper Company. Returning to the United States in 1941, his family settled in Anniston, Alabama, remaining there until his father's employer relocated to St. Louis in 1955.

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OUT NOW: 'The Sweet-Scented Manuscript' by Tito Perdue. 'Hilarious, brave, and tinged with the inescapable sorrow of death’s inevitability, "The Sweet-Scented Manuscript" is a portrait of youth itself. The 1950s are coming to a close, and young Leland Pefley is off to university lse.

The Sweet-Scented Manuscript is a gorgeous recounting of the romance, the fatalism, the rebelliousness, and the tragicomedy of the springtide of life, sharpened by all the spices of an intelligent young man’s lively revolt against.

The Sweet-Scented Manuscript is a gorgeous recounting of the romance, the fatalism, the rebelliousness, and the tragicomedy of the springtide of life, sharpened by all the spices of an intelligent young man’s lively revolt against the deadening mediocrity of his times. Romance Fiction Historical Historical Romance. One fee. Stacks of books.

Perdue's Sweet-Scented Manuscript was completed within a year of his "retirement," but was not published until 2004 when it was issued by Baskerville Pres). The Sweet-Scented Manuscript – Baskerville Press, 2004. ISBN 978-1-880909-68-3. The novel is a love story that attempts to convey the impressions and yearnings of an 18-year-old boy, Leland Pefley, in his first exploration of the world; the novel is largely autobiographical. Fields of Asphodel – Overlook Press, 2007.

The Sweet Scented Manuscript caught me unawares, I thought Mr. Perdue had given up writing since fewer people are reading these days. After all, most novels nowadays are hacked out with the hope that a Hollywood producer will take notice and pick up the movie rights. That will not happen in the Lee series for two reasons.

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Thus his next novel, The Sweet-Scented Manuscript appeared only in. .Tito Perdue is America’s finest living novelist.

Thus his next novel, The Sweet-Scented Manuscript appeared only in 2004, followed by Fields of Asphodel in 2007. Since then, Perdue’s books have appeared from New Right publishers: The Node came out in 2011 from Nine-Banded Books; Morning Crafts came out in 2012 from Arktos; and Washington Summit Publishers will publish his next novel, Reuben, sometime in 2013. His genre is Southern Gothic, and his style is magical realist. His main themes are the nature of the good life and the decline of Western civilization.

Tito Perdue’s Cynosura returns to themes of his most light-hearted novel, The Sweet-Scented Manuscript. It is a love story, a first-love story, a swooning and delirious-but also intellectual and serious-love story about two talented and alienated young people who become one another’s world. But Cynosura returns to the themes of young love from the point of view of old age.