X20: A Novel of [Not] Smoking Richard Beard
Gregory Simpson is, after years of being paid to smoke a packet a day for research purposes, trying to give up. To keep his hands busy he decides to write a journal.
X20
X20
Zusammenfassung
Gregory Simpson is, after years of being paid to smoke a packet a day for research purposes, trying to give up. To keep his hands busy he decides to write a journal.
X20 Zusammenfassung
X20 Bewertungen
"'Beard is as good on the sensuality of smoking as on the philosophy. This is an unusually intelligent, funny and readable first book' Sunday Times; 'Gregory Simpson is, after years of being paid to smoke a packet a day for research purposes, trying to give up. He decides to write to keep his hands busy and the resulting journal - combining memories of seduction, little-known facts about the tobacco industry and the comfortable camaraderie of the suicide club - is an elegant, witty and confident disquisition on smoking as desire and as a metaphor for desire' Observer; 'Populated by a cast of well-drawn eccentrics...loaded with encyclopaedic detail on the history and iconography of smoking, this comic novel nevertheless aims at deep seriousness...Beard's writing can be breathtaking' Daily Telegraph"
Über Richard Beard
Richard Beard studied at Cambridge, the Open University and the University of East Anglia. He is the author of three novels, X20, Damascus and The Cartoonist.
Zusätzliche Informationen
GOR003052664
9780099477556
0099477556
X20: A Novel of [Not] Smoking Richard Beard
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Vintage Publishing
2005-03-03
320
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