Nicotine

From the much acclaimed author of Mislaid and The Wallcreeper, a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families both the ones we re born into and the ones we create a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father s childhood home She wills her body to be equally wraithlike Not sodden, not heavy, not dead, but filled with crackling, electric life, like a stale Marlboro on fire Unemployed business major, Penny, has rebelled against her family her whole life by being the conventional one Her mother was a member of a South American tribe her father was a Jewish Shamanist with a psychedelic healing centre But everything changes when her father dies and Penny inherits his childhood home Left weightless and unmoored after being the only member of her family with time for her dying father, Penny then finds his property occupied by a group of squatters, united in defence of smokers rights and herself unexpectedly besotted with them, particularly Rob, the hot bicycle and tobacco activist.Totally addictive and dangerously good, Nicotine is a fiercely funny novel in which passion is politics and nonviolence is the opposite of surrender. New Download Nicotine [ Author ] Nell Zink [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr It s not her gender that s underrepresented It s her species Like a dog at a party for birds, or a hip hopper at a party for Pagan bisexuals.that quote sums up my reaction to this book in a nutshell i m a dog at this bird party, not understanding why everyone s have a good time i don t necessarily need to relate to characters in order to enjoy a book to see myse...Maybe women go for your dick because your mouth is full of tobacco..I kinda wonder about a female author who grew up in rural Virginia now lives near Berlin, Germany.and writes sentences like the above excerpt.This is my first experience reading Nell Zink The New York Times review was given to me by a friend when I was gifted this hardcopy book Much of their review I completely agree with But my first thoughts about this book was why in the hell would I read this I don t smoke Maybe women go for your dick because your mouth is full of tobacco..I kinda wonder about a female author who grew up in rural Virginia now lives near Berlin, Germany.and writes sentences like the above excerpt.This is my first experience reading Nell Zink The New York Times review was given to me by a friend when I was gifted thi...She wills her body to be equally wraithlike Not sodden, not heavy, not dead, but filled with crackling, electric life, like a stale Marlboro on fire Nell Zink s Nicotine is a social satire on a grand scale It invokes and satirizes the philosophies of shamanism, pragmatism, and anarchy It begins with Amalia at age 13 being adopted by Norm from a garbage heap in Cartagena, Columbia From there, the novel flash forwards to Amalia s daughter, Penny, at age 12 at her father s psychadelic hea She wills her body to be equally wraithlike Not sodden, not heavy, not dead, but filled with crackling, electric life, like a stale Marlboro on fire Nell Zink s Nicotine is a social satire on a grand scale It invokes and satirizes the philosophies of shamanism, pragmatism, and anarchy It begins with Amalia at age 13 being adop...Although I did not love Nicotine, reading some of the negative reviews it s received makes me feel instantly defensive, because I do think it s a much cleverer and better written book than its detractors are giving it credit for Set in a series of New Jersey squats, with a cast of anarchists, shamanic healers and assorted polyamorous fuck ups, Nicotine may well depend, for its impact on readers, on their predispositions towards millennials and the current trends of youth culture Zink s steer Although I did not love Nicotine, reading some of the negative reviews it s received makes me feel instantly defensive, because I do think it s a much cleverer and better written book than its detractors are giving it credit for Set in a series of New Jersey squats, with a cast of anarchists, shamanic healers and assorted polyamorous fuck ups, Nicotine may well depend, for its impact on readers, on their predispositions towards millennials and the current trends of youth culture Zink s steer on how we should feel about her characters is subtle everything is done throug...3.5 starsWell that was odd This is a strange book with an eccentric cast of characters It starts out weird and just keeps getting weirder It was hard to related to but at the same time there was something about it that I really liked I was strangely drawn to these misfits in a way I can t quite put my finger on I read this well into the night because I was curious what was going to happen I often don t l...I m not even sure where to start with this one It s definitely one of the weirder books I ve read lately, filled with a truly eccentric cast of characters.Penny is an aimless young college graduate coming to terms with her father s recent death Her family is what you would call non traditional, to put it lightly Her mother is a former member of a South American tribe and her much older father gained fame operating a psychedelic healing center near that same region Oh yeah, and her mother act I m not even sure where to start with this one It s definitely one of the weirder books I ve read lately, filled with a truly eccentric cast of characters.Penny is an aimless young college graduate coming to terms with her father s recent death Her family is what you would call non traditional, to put it lightly Her mother is a former member of a South American tribe and her much older father gained fame operating a psychedelic healing center near that same region Oh yeah, and her mother actually started out as her father s adopted daughter when he rescued her when she was just 13.Yeah, it s like that Penny also has two much older half brothers, one of whom Matt is a selfish sociopath As you can imagine, all of this comes to a head when Penny s fath...This is a book about finding order in chaos, accepting idiosyncrasies of individuals and making peace with your family both biological and fraternal.Penny is the strait laced,odd one out in her completely unorthodox, atypical family She has managed to dodge their eccentricities until her dad, a hippie healer read drug dealer who treats terminally ill older patient, dies.She becomes the sole heir to his childhood house which she soon realizes has been abandoned for long enough to be turned This is a ...While I was reading this book, I merely thought it was sloppily written and lazily edited My example was this shit A police car just pulled up, she said, looking up to see a police car pulling up I thought that was as bad as it got But when I got to the end, I realized it s really, really fucking stupid Stupid is actually the best it could be If the author is not stupid, then she s outstandingly cynical and cruel, and fucking with the segment of her audience that reads sappy romantic s While I was reading this book, I merely thought it was sloppily written and lazily edited My example was this shit A police car just pulled up, she said, looking up to see a police car pulling up I thought that was as bad as it got But when I got to the end, I realized it s really, really fucking stupid Stupid is actually the best it could be If the author is not stupid, then she s outstandingly cynical and cruel, and fucking with the segment of her audience that reads sappy romantic shit and thinks it s how relationships are supposed to work At one point early in the book, the main character, Penny, puzzles over her family s blas reaction to her father s death by reasoning that they are all sociopaths At the risk of overstating it, I feel like the author is the one who s a sociopath The ending of this book will seem romantic and fulfilling to many while those of us who ve been in this kind of destructive relationship see clearly what s going to happen The author, however,...I loved the beginning The story of Norm dying and Penny s grief had me hooked, I was so excited for this book Then the tone completely changed when she got to Nicotine I m going to be frank here and maybe I m just not trendy worldly hipstery enough to understand this book but quite honestly, I had no clue what the f the characters were talking about half the time I found this book to be very annoying A lot of reviews are saying people would ve enjoyed this better if they were younger I loved the beginning The story of Norm dying and Penny s grief had me hooked, I was so excited for this book Then the tone completely changed when she got to Nicotine I m going to be frank here and maybe I m just not trendy worldly hipstery enough to understand this book but quite honestly, I had no clue what the f the characters were talking about half the time I found this book to ...One time a creative writing grad student asked me to read an opening chapter to their book I read it and it was like this awful hipster wasteland full of ironic characters with stupid names and pure affectations and vapid existences I said Oh I thought it was good because these aren t real 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• English
• 23 March 2017
Nell Zink
• Hardcover
• 304 pages
• 0008179174
• Nell Zink
• Nicotine