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The Nicotine Chronicles

The Nicotine Chronicles

Literary FictionShort Stories
Pages
256
Published
2020
Language
English

Synopsis

Lee Child, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Ames, and other notable authors contribute to this collection of stories that delve into the many facets of nicotine. Exploring its various "alter egos," the volume presents diverse literary styles and moral quandaries surrounding a substance that has become increasingly controversial. This anthology offers an immensely engaging and thought-provoking look at nicotine through the incandescent imaginations of its contributors.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

DarkThought-ProvokingComplexIntellectual
Multiple POVs

Genres

Literary Fiction Short Stories

Authors

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Achy Obejas

Achy Obejas writes across fiction and non-fiction, with titles like The Nicotine Chronicles and Revolution Sunday. Her work often explores Cuban-American identity, as seen in the bilingual memoir Boomerang / Bumerán, and she also wrote Frida Kahlo.

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Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian is best known for writing and starring in the play and the film adaptation of that play, Talk Radio (NYSF – 1987). For this work he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received the Berlin Film Festival “Silver Bear Award.” He is also well known for his six solo performances Off-Broadway (Men Inside, FunHouse, Drinking in America, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead, Wake Up and Smell The Coffee) between 1980 and 2000, for which he received three Obie...

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Jonathan Ames

American author, columnist and screenwriter. Ames wrote a number of popular novels and comic memoirs.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience. Her work often explores the American experience.

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Lee Child

Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. He was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 a...