| The Smoking Diaries Volume 3: The Last Cigarette Contributor(s): Gray, Simon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1847080723 ISBN-13: 9781847080721 Publisher: Granta Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | Drama |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.15" W x 7.91" (0.51 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The final volume of the trilogy that began with The Smoking Diaries finds Simon Gray determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of twenty and his two lighters? As this wonderful, wayward record of Gray's life progresses, these questions are overtaken by much larger ones. What was sex like before 1963? Will his name be in lights on Broadway? Why leave the bedside of his dying mother? With their combination of comedy and serious reflection, of sharp observation and painful self-disclosure, Simon Gray's diaries reinvented the memoir form and are destined to become classics of autobiography. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gray, Simon: - SIMON GRAY was born in England in 1936 and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was the author of over 30 plays, including Butley, The Common Pursuit and Cell Mates, and published several volumes of diaries and books about the theatre, including Enter a Fox and Fat Chance, both published by Granta. He was awarded a CBE in 2005. He died in 2008. |