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Cigarette Lighter

by Jack Pendarvis
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Current price ₹163.00
Original price ₹250.00
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789386606310
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic India
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 143
  • Original Price: INR 250.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 100 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Media Studies

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectorsȦ. The cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often entirely disposable object that moves across these various groups of people, acquiring and emitting different meanings while always supplying its primary function, that of ignition. While the lighter may seem at first a niche objectȔonly for old fashioned cigarette smokersȔin this book Jack Pendarvis explodes the lighter as something with deep history, as something with quirky episodes in cultural contexts and as something that dances with wide ranging taboos and traditions. Pendarvis shows how the lighter tarries with the cheapest ends of consumer culture as much as it displays more profound dramas of human survival, technological advances and aesthetics.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic. Jack Pendarvis has published essays, book reviews, interviews and stories in McSweeney’s, The LA Review of Books and the New York Times. He is a former columnist for The Believer and The Oxford American and is the author of two books of short stories and a novel. He recently received an Emmy for his work on the Peabody Award-winning show Adventure Time.

Jack Pendarvis has published essays, book reviews, interviews and stories in McSweeney’s, The LA Review of Books and the New York Times. He is a former columnist for The Believer and The Oxford American and is the author of two books of short stories and a novel. He recently received an Emmy for his work on the Peabody Award-winning show Adventure Time.

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