The Smoking Book.

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stern, Lesley
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Temas:
Cigarette smokers > Fiction.
Tobacco use > Fiction.
Smoking > Fiction.
Smoking.
Nicotine addiction.
Tobacco use.
Fumeurs > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Tabagisme > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Tabagisme.
Nicotine addiction
Cigarette smokers
Smoking
Tobacco use
smoking, addiction, meditation, body, pleasure, biography, memoir, autobiography, nonfiction, travel, south america, japan, italy, scotland, australia, zimbabwe, postcolonialism, tobacco production, reminiscence, rhodesia, colonialism, farming, fulfillment, exchange, desire, cigarettes, cigarette smokers, psychology, habit, drug use, nicotine, community.
Fiction
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Smoke Circles
  • Burnout
  • Suspended Forever
  • A Fishy Smell
  • Not Wan
  • Burial
  • Like a Precious Gem
  • Yakandanda
  • The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
  • White Man
  • Translation (a gift of opium)
  • No Substitute
  • Seasickness
  • Screaming
  • To Bubble and Rumble (like an elephant)
  • Memory Missiles
  • A Smoky Edifice (implosion)
  • Babies or Booze (metonymy)
  • Bombs or Bums (metaphor)
  • Traced by (a slight sense of) Bitterness
  • Instead of a Lobotomy (a cigarette)
  • To Remember (to find yourself in fragments)
  • To Forget
  • Chaos
  • Smoko
  • Black Hole Spinning (the physics of writing)
  • Healthy
  • Strange Attractors
  • A Lycanthropic Age (the writing cure)
  • A Boil About to Burst (the talking cure)
  • Voicing
  • Mouthing
  • Appetite
  • Lions Don't Smoke
  • Poison
  • Fog Drinking
  • Kettle Logic (the art of separation)
  • I Done a Lotta Bad Things
  • The Smoking Room
  • Kindness (or, the werewolf comes home)
  • Those Places in the Body That Have No Language Either
  • Anticipation (a crevice opening up)
  • Habit
  • Panic
  • A Sleeping Problem
  • Open Arms
  • Fire Escape

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