The Smoking Diaries: Boxed Set Simon Gray,
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847080588
Edition: Paperback; 2008-11-01
Summary:
When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a
diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to
posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly,
turbulently, digressively expressed. The three volumes of "The
Smoking Diaries" are the result, in which one of Britain's most
amusing and original writers reflects on a life filled with
cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many
more disasters, shame, adultery, friendship and love. Few diarists
have been as frank about themselves, and even fewer as
entertaining.This beautiful boxed set contains paperbacks of "The
Smoking Diaries", "The Smoking Diaries: The Year of the Jouncer", and
"The Smoking Diaries: The Last Cigarette", only just published in
hardback in April 2008.With their combination of comedy and serious
reflection, of sharp observation and painful self-disclosure, Simon
Gray's diaries have reinvented the memoir form and are destined to
become classics of autobiography. The beauty of them lies in Gray's
struggle to put a finger on some kind of personal truth. "The Smoking
Diaries" give a brilliant and moving account of life's unsteady
progress - with unfailing wit and humour, they take us to the very
heart of a man.
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