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9781501307362

Cigarette Lighter

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  • ISBN13:

    9781501307362

  • ISBN10:

    1501307363

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2016-01-28
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors…. 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 object-only for old fashioned cigarette smokers-in 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.

Author Biography

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 is currently a staff writer for the popular television series Adventure Time.

Table of Contents

Prologue
1. Taming Fire
2. Age of the Lighter
3. Lighter vs. Match
4. Cars
5. The Lighter in Literature and Popular Culture
6. Romance and Death: Cigarette Lighters Today
Index

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