| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Stern, Lesley. |
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Cigarette smokers -- Fiction.
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Cigarette smokers. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Tobacco use -- Fiction.
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Tobacco use. |
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Smoking -- Fiction.
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Smoking. |
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Smoking.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stern, Lesley. Smoking book. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999 0226773302 (DLC) 99026219 (OCoLC)41090774 |
| ISBN |
0226773329 (electronic book) |
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9780226773322 (electronic book) |
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9780226773308 |
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0226773302 |
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0226773302 (alkaline paper) |
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