{"product_id":"9780099554882","title":"At The Existentialist Cafe : Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails - Sarah Bakewell","description":"Shortlisted 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","brand":"Sarah Bakewell","offers":[{"title":"448 pages \/ 02\/03\/2017 \/ Popular philosophy","offer_id":57491702776183,"sku":"9780099554882","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780099554882.jpg?v=1790326939","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780099554882","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}