Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking
Aoibheann Sweeney
Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeneys beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for intimacy. For Miranda, the adolescence spent in her fog-shrouded Maine home has been stark and isolated alone with her troubled father, a man consumed with his work translating Ovids Metamorphoses, her mother mysteriously gone from their lives. Now, having graduated from high school, Mirandas father arranges for her to stay with old friends in Manhattan, and she embarks on a journey that will open up her fathers pastand her own worldin ways she cannot begin to imagine.
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| ISBN | 9780143113416 |
| Genre | Award Winner; Fiction |
| Publication Date | 24-Jun-08 |
| Publisher | Penguin (Non-Classics) |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 272 |
| Award | Lambda Literary Award – 2008 (Lesbian Debut Fiction) |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| Award | Lambda Literary Award – 2008 (Lesbian Debut Fiction) |
| Subject | Fiction / Coming Of Age; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Loneliness; Maine |
| BookID | 466 |
