Title The smoking book / Lesley Stern.

Publication Info.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 238 pages)
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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Stern, Lesley.
	Cigarette smokers -- Fiction.
	Tobacco use -- Fiction.
	Smoking -- Fiction.
	Smoking.
	Smoking -- Philosophy.
	Cigarette smokers -- Biography.
	Cigarette smokers -- Psychology.
	Cigarette smokers -- Social life and customs.
	Tobacco farms -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
	Cigarette smokers. (OCoLC)fst00861372
	Smoking. (OCoLC)fst01121689
	Tobacco use. (OCoLC)fst01431613
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Other Form:	Print version: Stern, Lesley. Smoking book. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999 0226773302 (DLC) 99026219 (OCoLC)41090774
ISBN	0226773329 (electronic bk.)
	9780226773322 (electronic bk.)

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