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The Smoking Book - by Lesley Stern (Paperback)

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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?
  • About the Author: Lesley Stern was born in Zimbabwe and lives in Sydney, Australia, where she teaches film and theater at the University of New South Wales.
  • 248 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, General

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Book Synopsis



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 and vivid accounts of growing up on a tobacco farm in colonial Rhodesia, reminiscences that permeate subsequent excursions into precolonial tobacco production and postcolonial life in Zimbabwe, as well as dramatic vignettes set in Australia, the United States, Scotland, Italy, Japan, and South America. 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.

The Smoking Book is for anyone who has ever smoked or loved a smoker (against their better judgment); it is for those who have never smoked or for those who mourn the loss of cigarettes as they would grieve for a lost friend. But mostly, The Smoking Book is for all those who are smoldering still.



From the Back Cover



A 1999 Village Voice Literary Supplement "Writer on the Verge"

Sit back, breathe in deeply, and let Lesley Stern's sinuous words draw you into this innovative book that weaves the intimate act of smoking into a broad cultural picture of desire, exchange, and fulfillment.



About the Author



Lesley Stern was born in Zimbabwe and lives in Sydney, Australia, where she teaches film and theater at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of The Scorsese Connection.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.98 Inches (H) x 5.02 Inches (W) x .59 Inches (D)
Weight: .56 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 248
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: General
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Lesley Stern
Language: English
Street Date: May 1, 2001
TCIN: 1006090241
UPC: 9780226773339
Item Number (DPCI): 247-16-1949
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.59 inches length x 5.02 inches width x 7.98 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.56 pounds
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