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The smoking book
- Title
- The smoking book / Lesley Stern.
- Author
- Stern, Lesley.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR9619.3.S796 S64 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 238 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- An anthology of stories and essays on smoking, how people start, why they do it and the pleasures it offers. One story describes a tobacco auction in Zimbabwe, a major producer. By the author of The Scorsese Connection.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Cigarette smokers > Fiction
- Tobacco use > Fiction
- Smoking > Fiction
- Smoking
- Zimbabwean fiction (English) > 20th century
- Tobacco use
- Nicotine addiction
- Tobacco Use Disorder > psychology
- Smoking > sociology
- Tobacco Use Disorder
- Smoking
- Nicotine addiction
- Zimbabwean fiction (English)
- Cigarette smokers
- Tobacco use
- Tobacco habit > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fictional Work
- Biography
- novels.
- collective biographies.
- Novels
- Biographies
- Fiction
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Biographies.
- Novels.
- Romans.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235).
- Contents
- Smoke Circles -- Burnout -- Suspended Forever -- A Fishy Smell -- Not Wanting -- 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 -- Lighting Up -- Unspooling -- Demons -- Possessed -- Smoking Landscape -- Life-Giving Mist -- In Transit.
- ISBN
- 0226773302
- 9780226773308
- 9780226773339
- 0226773337
- LCCN
- 99026219
- OCLC
- ocm41090774
- 41090774
- SCSB-929145
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library