{"product_id":"cigarettes-are-sublime-paperback","title":"Cigarettes Are Sublime - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Klein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, \u003ci\u003eCigarettes Are Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein focuses on the dark beauty, negative pleasures, and exacting benefits attached to tobacco use and to cigarettes in particular. His appreciation of paradox and playful use of hyperbole lead the way on this aptly ambivalent romp through the cigarette in war, movies (the \"Humphrey Bogart cigarette\"), literature, poetry, and the reflections of Sartre to show that cigarettes are a mixed blessing, precisely sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn elegant display of prose. . . . [Klein's] polemic is bravely cranky. The book is important for . . . situating the act of smoking in Western culture and telling us addicts, without condescension, what kind of dance we're doing 10 or 20 times a day.--Laura Mansnerus, \"New York Times Book Review\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] wise and timely book: it is also sly, funny, and peculiarly seductive. . . . [A] remarkable achievement.\"--John Banville, \"New York Review of Books\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Klein is Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of \u003ci\u003eDiacritics\u003c\/i\u003e. He quit smoking while writing \u003ci\u003eCigarettes Are Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e and has been nicotine-free ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.89 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 20, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335326155001,"sku":"9780822316411","price":51.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cjVxOFdDYjRETkVKUjVUMEc1YmtEUT09.webp?v=1769657987","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/cigarettes-are-sublime-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}