The Smoking Book Hardback
by Lesley Stern
Part of the Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith series
Hardback
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"The Smoking Book" is built on the foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean?
Lesley Stern muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays.
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 book begins with 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 vignettes set in Australia, the United States, Scotland, Italy, Japan and South America.
Stern has written a book, at once personal and international, that weaves the intimate act of a solitary person smoking a cigarette into a broad cultural picture of desire, exchange, fulfilment and the acts that bind people together, either in lasting ways or through ephemeral encounters.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1999
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- ISBN:9780226773308
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226773308
