The Complete Smoking Diaries

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 184708866X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Smoking Diaries written by Simon Gray and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he turned sixty-five, playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary in which he reflected on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters, shame, adultery, friendship and love. Bringing together the four parts of The Smoking Diaries (The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer, The Last Cigarette, and Coda) this beautiful volume is filled with comedy and serious reflection, sharp observation and painful self-disclosure. A brilliant and moving account of life's unsteady progress, it takes the reader to the heart of one man's brilliant struggle towards some kind of personal truth.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 184708852X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smoking Diaries Volume 4 written by Simon Gray and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coda is Simon Gray's powerful account of the year in which he struggled to come to terms with terminal lung cancer. Darkly comic depictions of the medical team are set against joyful accounts of sunlit days with his beloved wife, Victoria. Written with exceptional candour and a poignant reluctance to leave this world behind, Simon Gray's Coda is as life-affirming as it is heart-rending. Sadly, Coda was published posthumously: Gray died in August 2008.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coda written by Simon Gray and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Coda' is Simon Gray's powerful account of the year in which he struggles to come to terms with terminal lung cancer. From heartbreaking reflections on his own mortality to outrageous asides Gray's self-proclaimed 'last written words on the subject of myself' records his extraordinary emotional journey.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781862077461
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fat Chance written by Simon Gray and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous account of Stephen Fry's departure from Cell Mates, only days after opening

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847088511
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smoking Diaries Volume 1 written by Simon Gray and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was the result, in which one of Britain's most beloved and original writers reflected 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.

Author : Alex Michaelides
Publisher : Celadon Books
ISBN 13 : 1250301718
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Patient written by Alex Michaelides and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Cigarette written by Simon Gray and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notable for his uncompromising honesty and a wit both fierce and fearless, Simon Gray's voice was uniquely his own - intelligent, probing and often outrageously funny. He faced life - and death - with unflinching courage and defiant humanity; even when writing about his own mortality, he lost none of his prodigious talent to entertain. Warm, candid and with a double dose of dark humour, this dramatisation of Gray's The Smoking Diaries and other memoirs was completed just before his death last summer. The Last Cigarette premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in March 2009.

Author : Ronald Reagan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061751944
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reagan Diaries written by Ronald Reagan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller “Reading these diaries, Americans will find it easier to understand how Reagan did what he did for so long . . . They paint a portrait of a president who was engaged by his job and had a healthy perspective on power.” —Jon Meacham, Newsweek During his two terms as the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine occurrences of his presidency. To read these diaries—now compiled into one volume by noted historian Douglas Brinkley and filled with Reagan’s trademark wit, sharp intelligence, and humor—is to gain a unique understanding of one of our nation’s most fascinating leaders.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847088546
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smoking Diaries Volume 3 written by Simon Gray and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786715459
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smoking Diaries written by Simon Gray and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2005-07-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he turned sixty-five, the acclaimed playwright Simon Gray began to keep this 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. "So here I am, two hours into my sixty-sixth year.... The truth is that I'm nastier than I used to be back when—back when I was sixty-four, for instance, when I was nastier than when I was at sixty-two and so forth, back and back, always the less nasty the further back, until I get to the age when I was pre-nasty, at least consciously, when the only shame I knew was the shame of being found out, which was when I was, well, about eight, I suppose."