Book summaryPerhaps the funniest book written in English since Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman". Media reviews"'Holy Smoke' is a whirling, free associating history of the cigar...with all the lure of the lovingly, wittingly detailed obsession." |
Holy smokeby INFANTE, G(UILLERMO) CABRERA
Book description: New York: Harper & Row. 1985. Hard Cover. 0060154322 . 329 pages, cloth, dust jacket little frayed otherwise very good. From Ingram, 'This marvelously readable homage to the cigar is sprinkled with a treasure trove of fascinating anecdotes by the likes of Groucho Marx, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Colette, Orson Welles, and Humphrey Bogart. A natural for Father's Day, this original tribute also includes a history of the cigar and a veritable arsenal of details about cigars and those who smoke them.' .
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