Cigarette Lighter

by Jack Pendarvis

Book Overview

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors.... The cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often entirely disposable object that moves across these various groups of people, acquiring and emitting different meanings while always supplying its primary function, that of ignition. While the lighter may seem at first a niche object--only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501307363
• ISBN13: 9781501307362
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 6.4"