A01=Lesley Stern
addiction
australia
Author_Lesley Stern
autobiography
biography
body
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cigarette smokers
cigarettes
colonialism
community
desire
drug use
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exchange
farming
fulfillment
habit
italy
japan
meditation
memoir
nicotine
nonfiction
pleasure
postcolonialism
psychology
reminiscence
rhodesia
scotland
smoking
south america
tobacco production
travel
zimbabwe
Product details
- ISBN 9780226773339
- Weight: 284g
- Dimensions: 13 x 20mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2001
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
