{"product_id":"9781479734146","title":"The Smoking Contest","description":"Sparks fly in this amusing bi-lingual love story between an American man  who can’t stand to be in smoking environments and a French woman who simply  refuses to give up cigarettes. He’s a writer, she a stage director trained in the  Russian theatre, but at present with no dramatic company of her own. They meet  in Paris at a time when smoking has been banned in France but also at the very  moment a well-financed commercial effort is afoot to bring back the past. Cigarette  and cosmetic companies unite to rekindle the joie de vivre of smoking in the public’s  consciousness. In a homage the past, the business interests stage a national smoking  contest for women and our heroine decides to become a contestant –much to the  irritation of her American lover. Their relationship is already in distress as our heroine  suspects that her lover has betrayed her with at least two women.","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125590540528,"sku":"9781479734146","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781479734146_p0.jpg?v=1763617408","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781479734146","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}