ENGLISH

The Smoking Book

By Stern , Lesley

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0226773302, 0226773337, 9780226773322, 0226773329
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (12021445 bytes)
Pages
252 pages\249
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Cigarette smokers;LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General;S

Description

The Smoking Book.;The Smoking Book is a dreamlike structure built on the solid foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern, in an innovative, hybrid form of writing, muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays that connect, expand, and contract like smoke rings floating through the air. Stern writes of addictions and passionate attachments, of the body and bodily pleasure, of autobiography and cultural history. Smoking is Stern's seductive pretext, her way of entering unknown and mysterious regions. The Smoking Book begins with intimate a.

Similar books