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      Cigarettes

      by Harry Mathews
      Published
      Oct 1998
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
      Pages
      304
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      About This Book

      Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State.

      Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having an affair with Elizabeth, who lives with Maud. Or say it is a story about fraud in the art world, horse racing, and sexual intrigues. Or, as one critic did, compare it to a Jane Austen creation, or to an Aldous Huxley novel—and be right and wrong on both counts.

      With a new introduction by Lucy Sante, Cigarettes returns to print in full force: a brilliant display of Harry Mathews's ingenuity and deadly playfulness.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical Literary

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      Oct 1988 Collier Books ISBN13 9780020139713 ISBN10 0020139713
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      Oct 1998 Dalkey Archive Press ISBN13 9781564782038 ISBN10 1564782034
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      Apr 2008 Grove Press ISBN13 9781555840921 ISBN10 1555840922
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