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The smoking book [electronic resource] / Lesley Stern.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 238 p.)ISBN:
  • 0226773329 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780226773322 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780226773308
  • 0226773302
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Smoking book.DDC classification:
  • 823 21
LOC classification:
  • PR9619.3.S796 S64 1999eb
Online resources: 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.
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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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