{"product_id":"9780099554882","title":"At The Existentialist Cafe : Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Bakewell, Sarah \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/03\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 448 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099554882,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking…‘It’s not often that you miss your bus stop because you’re so engrossed in reading a book about existentialism, but I did exactly that... The story of Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al is strange, fun and compelling reading. If it doesn’t win awards, I will eat my copy’ Independent on Sunday‘Bakewell shows how fascinating were some of the existentialists’ ideas and how fascinating, often frightful, were their lives. Vivid, humorous anecdotes are interwoven with a lucid and unpatronising exposition of their complex philosophy… Tender, incisive and fair’ Daily Telegraph‘Quirky, funny, clear and passionate… Few writers are as good as Bakewell at explaining complicated ideas in a way that makes them easy to understand’ Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697299062828,"sku":"9780099554882","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780099554882_8feb7ca0-6426-47b3-8d25-ee5dd739fb5b.jpg?v=1759664678","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780099554882","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}