X20: A Novel of (Not) Smoking
Author: Richard Beard
Beard is as good on the sensuality of smoking as on the philosophy. This is an unusually intelligent, funny and readable first book’ Sunday TimesShe offered me the cigarette like an apple. It was love and desire. It was knowledge and everything.’Gregory Simpson is, after years of being paid to smoke a packet a day for research purposes, trying to give up. He decides to wr….Read More
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