ISBN:
9780226773308
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (252 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Smoking Book
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Social life and customs
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
THE SMOKING BOOK;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
