Cigarettes - Harry Mathews Michael DeForge and articulates the expansive possibilities

and articulates the expansive possibilities of what we might call—non-exclusively—an African diasporic surrealism

The effect of the fireworks at the moment of the explosion seems impossible to reproduce on paper

but neither do I see (as many have) the sinister spoor of a cult in these pages

text bilingual English/Spanish / first edition

and the overwhelming strangeness of the world beyond his home

Cigarettes - Harry Mathews Michael DeForge and articulates the expansive possibilitiesCigarettes by Harry Mathews ISBN 9781628974522 290 page paperback from Dalkey Archive *** "This book is remarkable, as involving as a nineteenth century saga and as original as any modernist inventiona rare combination of readability and ingenuity. In Cigarettes, Mathews has forged his most expressive style."Edmund White Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New