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Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking

By Aoibheann Sweeney

By Aoibheann Sweeney

By Aoibheann Sweeney

By Aoibheann Sweeney

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    About Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking

    Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeney’s 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 Ovid’s Metamorphoses, her mother mysteriously gone from their lives. Now, having graduated from high school, Miranda’s father arranges for her to stay with old friends in Manhattan, and she embarks on a journey that will open up her father’s past and her own world, in ways she cannot begin to imagine.

    About Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking

    Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeney’s 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 Ovid’s Metamorphoses, her mother mysteriously gone from their lives. Now, having graduated from high school, Miranda’s father arranges for her to stay with old friends in Manhattan, and she embarks on a journey that will open up her father’s past and her own world, in ways she cannot begin to imagine.

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    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jun 24, 2008 | 272 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143113416

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jul 19, 2007 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9781101202227

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