Cigarettes

Title: Cigarettes
Author: Harry Mathews
ISBN: 9781628976076
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher

Fiction 1679741

Publisher Description:

Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State.

Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having an affair with Elizabeth, who lives with Maud. Or say it is a story about fraud in the art world, horse racing, and sexual intrigues. Or, as one critic did, compare it to a Jane Austen creation, or to an Aldous Huxley novel--and be right and wrong on both counts.

With a new introduction by Lucy Sante, Cigarettes returns to print in full force: a brilliant display of Harry Mathews's ingenuity and deadly playfulness.