Guru Cigarettes: Original Trade Paperback - Softcover

Geary, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0975396412 ISBN 13: 9780975396414

Publisher: Gorsky Press, 2005

Synopsis

Nineteen-year-old Norma wants something exciting to happen this summer. When she accidentally stumbles across an unusual kind of cigarette and a group of fashion pornographers who smoke them, she finds something to shake up her life. Intrigued by their lifestyle, Norma joins them in a heist of the Fountain of Youth, embarks on a trip to London, and experiments with fashion as art. Funny, clever, philosophical, and imaginative, Guru Cigarettes is the story of a young woman caught at a crossroads in her life, weighing the balance between simplicity and clutter and trying to figure out the age-old question, "What is the meaning of life?"

Guru Cigarettes finds Patricia Geary at her most deft, tart, and beguiling. As always in Geary's tales, the real and the fantastic waft together until like tobacco smoke and incense, you can't see the difference. Yet their distinctive fragrances linger. Geary's fashion pilgrims explore the weave of art and artifice, pose and posturing, couture and crap, and, most pleasurably, the transcendent power of serious shopping. Buddha's Eight-Fold Path sticks its foot in as well. As one character says of another's new look, 'Very nouveau ashram.' Indeed!

About this title

About the Author

Patricia Geary is an American author. After writing two borderline fantasy novels, Living in Ether (1982) and Strange Toys (1987), the latter of which won the Philip K. Dick Award. Her third novel, The Other Canyon, was published in 2002 by Gorsky Press, and another, Guru Cigarettes, in 2005.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gorsky Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0975396412
• ISBN 13: 9780975396414
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248