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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 interesting 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. 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.'- Book jacket.
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Dedication: For the friends I grew up with in Zimbabwe, still friends today - Annette E., Jane N., Lesley R., Gillian W.
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Contains autobiography, prose and short stories. A hybrid form of writing encompassing stories and essays woven into a memoir about smoking.
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Works about this Work
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Formed by Forgetting : reading the Smoking Book
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Philament , June no. 8 2006;
— Review of The Smoking Book 1999 selected work prose
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Formed by Forgetting : reading the Smoking Book
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Philament , June no. 8 2006;
— Review of The Smoking Book 1999 selected work prose