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...

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Main Author: Stern, Lesley
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 238 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-235).
ISBN:0226773329
9780226773322
9780226773308
0226773302

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