Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray
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 Smoking Diaries is 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.
Simon Gray was born in England in 1936 and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of over 30 plays, including Butley (1971), Otherwise Engaged (1975), Quatermaine's Terms (1981), The Common Pursuit (1984), Cell Mates (1995) and Japes (2000) and has published several volumes of diaries and books about the theatre. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862077232 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862077231 |
| Title | Smoking Diaries |
| Author | Simon Gray |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2005-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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