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A novel by Harry Mathews
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.
"CIGARETTES has the delicate yet rigorous architecture of latticework: if we concentrate on the light streaming through its apertures we are still attentive to its carpentry; if we focus on its geometry the light is, of needs, a constant presence. It is a triumph of the imagination" - Gilbert Sorrentino
Exercises in Style
Helen De Witt
Used availability for Harry Mathews's Cigarettes
Hardback Editions
May 1988 : UK Hardback
Title: Cigarettes
Author(s): Harry Mathews
Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
October 1987 : USA Hardback
Title: Cigarettes: A novel
ISBN: 1-55584-092-2 / 978-1-55584-092-1 (USA edition)
October 1998 : USA Paperback
Title: Cigarettes (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Title: Cigarettes (Collier Fiction)
ISBN: 0-02-013971-3 / 978-0-02-013971-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co