Nicotine by Gregor Hens
Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. With comic insight and meticulous precision, Hens deconstructs every facet of the dependency and offers a brilliant disquisition on the psychopathology of addiction.‘If Nicotine has a literary progenitor I would say that it is In Search of Lost Time […] an extraordinary act of literary finesse […] [with] tinkling little notes of comedy […] [a] dark, lovely, funny book’
— Joan Acocella, The New Yorker
‘[W]hen Nicotine stays dry, earthy and combustible, like a Virginia tobacco blend, it has a lot to say and says it well.’
— Dwight Garner, New York Times
‘A satisfying wisp of an essay about tobacco, addiction, first cigarettes, last cigarettes, breathing, kissing, hypnosis, literature, memory, and marking time […] Nicotine is a smoke ring, blown perfectly in a single puff, or – better? – a wafting trail of vapor. Will Self contributes a foreword, a rapid monologue punctuated with vigorous little twists, as though he were grinding out a stub with yellow-stained fingers.’
— Christine Smallwood, Harper’s
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781910695074 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910695076 |
| Title | Nicotine |
| Author | Gregor Hens |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Year published | 2015-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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