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Holy Smoke by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Guillermo Cobrea Infante (1997, Hardcover) 
Holy Smoke by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Guillermo Cobrea Infante (1997, Hardcover)

 
Holy Smoke by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Guillermo Cobrea Infante (1997, Hardcover)

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 1997-05-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0879517654
ISBN-13: 9780879517656
Product ID: EPID680853
Description: Perhaps the funniest book written in English since Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman".
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Synopsis
Perhaps the funniest book written in English since Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman".

Details
Publication Date:1997-05-01

Size
Length:329 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:22.4 oz

Publisher's Note
At once hilarious, informative and outrageous, this is a marvelously readable homage to the cigar. Sprinkled with a treasure trove of fascinating anecdotes taken from film, history, literature, science, art and folklore, Cabrera Infante lovingly unleashes a veritable arsenal of delicious details about cigars and those who smoke them. Groucho Marx, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Colette, Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe, and Humphrey Bogart are among the supporting players making guest appearances in this star vehicle for the cigar. This classic cigar chronicle also explores how cigars are made, the importance of the brand (and the band), why a cigarette is not a cigar, the history of tobacco itself, and the manners and mores of cigar smoking - including how to cut and how to smoke.

Industry Reviews
"It now seems utterly extraordinary that anyone can write brilliant prose in more than one language; we marvel at a Nabokov, a Beckett, a Cabrera Infante."
Publisher catalog. - Susan Sontag

"'Holy Smoke' is a whirling, free associating history of the cigar...with all the lure of the lovingly, wittingly detailed obsession."
Pennington

"An engaging classic...this rich and juicy book makes the current crop of coffee table books on the subject seem like mere ephemera....take a leaf from this book and have some robusto fun."
Zinn

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