TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stern,Lesley
TI  - The smoking book
SN  - 0226773329 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PR9619.3.S796 S64 1999eb
U1  - 823 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Stern, Lesley.
KW  - Cigarette smokers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Tobacco habit
KW  - Smoking
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Biography
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Tobacco farms
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
KW  - საზოგადოებრივი ცხოვრება და ზნე-ჩვეულებები
N2  - 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
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