The Cigarette Girl

Author : Ratih Kumala
Publisher : Monsoon Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789814625487

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Cigarette Girl by Ratih Kumala Pdf

Savour the familiar scent of clove and tobacco … for this is the aroma of Indonesia’s history. Soeraja is dying. On his deathbed he calls for Jeng Yah, a woman who is not his wife. His three sons, Lebas, Karim and Tegar – heirs to Kretek Djagad Raja, Indonesia’s largest clove cigarette empire – are shocked, and their mother is consumed by jealousy. So begins the brothers’ search into the deepest recesses of Java for Jeng Yah, to fulfil their father’s dying wish and to learn the truth about the family business and its secrets. Cigarette Girl is more than just a love story and the soul-searching journey of three brothers. Set on the island of Java the story follows the evolution of a family’s kretek, or clove cigarette, business from its birth in the Dutch East Indies of the early 1940s, and it takes readers through three generations of Indonesian history, from the Dutch colonial era to the Japanese occupation, the struggle for independence and the bloody coup of 1965 in which half a million Indonesians were hunted down and killed. Rich in detail, with characters who struggle to right the wrongs of past generations, their relationships torn apart by the viciousness of revolution and politics, Cigarette Girl introduces readers to the history of Indonesia through clove cigarettes and unrequited love.

Author : Carol Wolper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451677027

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Cigarette Girl by Carol Wolper Pdf

Carol Wolper's witty bestselling novel The Cigarette Girl, now available as an eBook for the first time ever, is the hilarious and refreshing story of a Hollywood screenwriter's search for Mr. Right in a city where men traffic in bimbos.

Author : Masahiko Matsumoto
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781603093828

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Cigarette Girl by Masahiko Matsumoto Pdf

Welcome to the quiet, evocative urban dramas of Masahiko Matsumoto, one of the leading lights of the Japanese alternative-comics movement known as "gekiga." Originally published in 1974, these eleven stories now form the first English-language collection of Matsumoto's mature work. His shy, uncertain heroes face broken hearts, changing families, money troubles, sexual anxiety, and the pressures of tradition, but with a whimsy and lightness of touch that is Matsumoto's trademark. With a new introduction by Matsumoto's well-known colleague, the late Yoshihiro Tatsumi.

Author : Carol Wolper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0330483676

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Cigarette Girl by Carol Wolper Pdf

Author : Carol Wolper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
ISBN : 1573221376

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The Cigarette Girl by Carol Wolper Pdf

A novel on the way the mating game is played in Hollywood. The heroine is scriptwriter Elizabeth West who at 28 has reached the age when thoughts turn to motherhood. The candidates range from architect to film director, to art gallery owner.

Author : Daniel Stashower
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781440620485

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The Beautiful Cigar Girl by Daniel Stashower Pdf

On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rog t."

Author : Ratih Kumala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 971828138X

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Cigarette Girl by Ratih Kumala Pdf

Author : Benoit Duteurtre
Publisher : Telegram Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Children
ISBN : 1846590299

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The Little Girl and the Cigarette by Benoit Duteurtre Pdf

A death-row inmate becomes a darling of the media (and the tobacco conglomerates) when he demands his right to a final cigarette in a smoke-free prison. Meanwhile, a little girl accuses a petty bureaucrat of sexual perversion when she catches him sneaking a cigarette. In this world where children rule tyrannically, a cigarette could lead him to the electric chair ...Young French author, Benoit Duteurtre, creates a world disconcertingly close to our own, yet wildly askew in this daring and antic comedy.

Author : Chris Harrald,Fletcher Watkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781628732412

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The Cigarette Book by Chris Harrald,Fletcher Watkins Pdf

From A is for Aardvark—“We’re not allowed to tell you anything about Winston cigarettes, so here’s a stuffed aardvark”—to Z is for Zippo, the iconic American lighter, The Cigarette Book is the ultimate souvenir and celebration of the dying art of smoking. Encyclopedic in both layout and range, this is an ideal consolation gift for those who have stopped, an ideal aide de memoire for those who might, and a defiant puff of libertarian brilliance for those who won’t. Celebrate the Hollywood age of smoking when film stars lit up with glamorous abandon. Witty, illustrated, collectible, and up-to-date. "… All smokers know that cigarettes are dangerous. Each one is a dance with death—and the defiant smoker will say that therein lies its charm. So each puff is an existential gesture, an assertion of choice and life in the face of death." One day the last cigarette on earth will be smoked. One final puff will be sent heaven-bound, leaving a lingering, evanescent smoke ring. And the wise of this world will rejoice. Because logic demands that mankind is rid of this pernicious poison. And wasn’t that well-known logician Adolf Hitler the most virulent opponent of cigarette smoking in the last century? Until then, read this book.

Author : Sharon Anne Cook
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773587267

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Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes by Sharon Anne Cook Pdf

Despite well documented health risks, young women are still drawn to the act of smoking and continue to smoke at an alarming rate. A century ago, women were vocal leaders of campaigns against tobacco across North America. In Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes, Sharon Anne Cook explores the history of the paradoxical relationship between women and the cigarette, in a sensitive and lively description of the many different meanings that smoking has held for women. Focusing on the social context of smoking, Cook explores its allure for elite, middle-class, working, and marginalized women from the late-nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. She argues that smoking's attraction is rooted in women's changing identity formation and in strategies for empowerment, an idea enriched through extensive analysis of visual culture. It is in these images (yearbooks, posters, photographic collages, print advertisements, billboards, movies) but also in the act of smoking itself, that women harnessed the power of the visual. Smoking remains a powerful way for women to express themselves and is closely connected to the processes of modernity, sexualization, and commodification of desire. Textual documents (newspapers, magazine features, textbooks, teachers' guides) and oral testimony are also explored to show how dominant discourses of smoking, sexuality, and health have shaped women's experiences and how women have moulded these discourses themselves. The first comprehensive study of women and smoking in Canada, Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes creates a rich portrait of the cultural factors that have resulted in over a century of women smokers.

Author : Karryn Nagel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0989345106

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Stockings Required by Karryn Nagel Pdf

After growing up adopted in the quiet suburbs, 26-year-old Pale is still struggling with identity and career. On a dare from her best friend, she takes a job as a cigarette and candy girl in San Francisco. Some of her customers are downright scary, others a delight ... all of them high-maintenance and ridiculous. Felix, one of the company drivers that she lusts over, is either coolly distant or unnervingly protective, depending on his mood, but insists he just wants to be "friends". His bravado won't hide his secret for long; Pale's determined to find it out. And if that wasn't stressful enough, the Fates weren't even kind enough to warn her of the worst, still to come. Some answers may lie in a letter from her mother, but how can she trust it won't make things worse?

Author : Lizzie Lane
Publisher : Boldwood Books Ltd
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800484849

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The Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane Pdf

The start of a thrilling new series, from bestselling author Lizzie Lane set in Bristol which follows three friends through thick and thin. Bristol 1939. School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father, a small-time crook, has an ulterior motive for insisting she gets a job at the W. D. H. O. Wills tobacco factory but keeps it to herself. She's befriended by effervescent Phyllis Mason and kind-hearted Bridget Milligan who take pity on her and take Maisie under their wing. But beneath their happy go lucky exteriors they all harbour dreams and worries about what the future holds. Engaged to be married Phyllis dreams of romance and passion but when it comes there are dire consequences. Bridget seemingly the level headed one harbours a horror of something unspeakable that she cannot easily come to terms with. There's great comradeship at the tobacco factory, and with the advent of war everything is about to change and even the closest friendships are likely to be strained. Praise for Lizzie Lane: 'A gripping saga and a storyline that will keep you hooked' Rosie Goodwin 'The Tobacco Girls is another heartwarming tale of love and friendship and a must-read for all saga fans.' Jean Fullerton 'Lizzie Lane opens the door to a past of factory girls, redolent with life-affirming friendship, drama, and choices that are as relevant today as they were then.' Catrin Collier 'If you want an exciting, authentic historical saga then look no further than Lizzie Lane.' Fenella J Miller What readers are saying about The Tobacco Girls: 'The Tobacco Girls is another heartwarming tale of love and friendship and a must-read for all saga fans.' Bestselling Author, Jean Fullerton 'Lizzie Lane opens the door to a past of factory girls, redolent with life-affirming friendship, drama, and choices that are as relevant today as they were then.' Bestselling Author, Catrin Collier 'Lizzie Lane's stories get me to and from work every day. Love them.' Reader Review

Author : Sarah Milov
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674241213

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The Cigarette by Sarah Milov Pdf

The story of tobacco’s fortunes seems simple: science triumphed over addiction and profit. Yet the reality is more complicated—and more political. Historically it was not just bad habits but also the state that lifted the tobacco industry. What brought about change was not medical advice but organized pressure: a movement for nonsmoker’s rights.

Author : Per Hagman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Stockholm (Sweden)
ISBN : 1838074287

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Cigarette by Per Hagman Pdf

Author : Randy Powell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374436282

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Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray? by Randy Powell Pdf

An eighteen-year-old pinball addict and a smart-mouthed girl who don't quite fit in with anyone else develop a special relationship.