The Smoking Book
By: Lesley Stern.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago, USA; London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Softcover
Number of pages: 238
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Cigarette smokers -- Fiction.; Tobacco use -- Fiction.; Smoking -- Fiction.; Smoking.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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 interesting stories and essays that connect, expand, and contract like smoke rings floating through the air."--BOOK JACKET.

"Stern writes of addictions and passionate attachments, of the body and bodily pleasure, of autobiography and cultural history. Stern has written a book, at once intensely personal and kaleidoscopically international, that weaves the intimate act of a solitary person smoking a cigarette into a broad cultural picture of desire, exchange, fulfillment, and the acts that bind people together, either in lasting ways or through ephemeral encounters."--BOOK JACKET.