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The Complete Smoking Diaries
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Author : Simon Gray
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2013-09-05
The Complete Smoking Diaries written by Simon Gray and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Smoking Diaries Volume 2
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Author : Simon Gray
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2013-01-23
The Smoking Diaries Volume 2 written by Simon Gray and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his pram while still nestling inside it. 'It was a complete mystery to the adult intelligences, how had he done it, if it was he who had done it, but if not he, who then and why? So the next afternoon they (Mummy and Nanny) planted the pram in the usual spot, and stood over it, watching - the baby lay there smiling or snivelling up at them, until it struck them that they should try observing the baby when unobserved by the baby, and they withdrew behind bushes and trees etc.; and thus witnessed the swaying of the pram, then the juddering of the pram, then its slow, unsteady progress along the path, the movement accompanied by a low humming and keening sound from within that reminded them more of a dog than a human ... "jouncing" was the word they used for it. I was a jouncer therefore.' In the second book of his chronicles of triumph and disaster which started with The Smoking Diaries, Gray intertwined scenes from his adult and his childish self to produce a brilliant and moving counterpoint of life's unsteady progress.
The Smoking Diaries
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Author : Simon Gray
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2005-07-19
The Smoking Diaries written by Simon Gray and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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."
The Smoking Diaries Volume 1
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Author : Simon Gray
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2013-01-23
The Smoking Diaries Volume 1 written by Simon Gray and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Smoking Diaries Volume 3
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Author : Simon Gray
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2013-01-23
The Smoking Diaries Volume 3 written by Simon Gray and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Last Cigarette
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Author : Simon Gray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Last Cigarette written by Simon Gray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Drama categories.
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.
Smoking Diaries
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Author : Simon Gray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Smoking Diaries written by Simon Gray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this volume, Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Can he kick the habit of sixty years?
The Smoking Diaries Volume 4
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Author : Simon Gray
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2013-01-23
The Smoking Diaries Volume 4 written by Simon Gray and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Smoking
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Author : Bernard Mausner
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2013-10-22
Smoking written by Bernard Mausner and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with Psychology categories.
Smoking: A Behavioral Analysis is written by two experimental social psychologists. It focuses on the psychological aspect of smoking and the effects that role-playing has on it. Comprised of two parts, the first part deals with the reasons that people begin and continue smoking, the environmental and intra-individual support for smoking, the relationship of these supports, and the values and expectations concerning the effects of smoking. The second part details an experiment that uses role-playing to induce a change in smoking. It includes the background, design, procedure, and the implications of the experiment in the research and control of smoking. The book is a valuable reference for psychologists, medical doctors, experts, and lay people interested in smoking, smoking cessation, and the relationship of behavior to this habit.
Non Filtered Thoughts
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Author : Mark Echols
language : en
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Release Date : 2013-08
Non Filtered Thoughts written by Mark Echols and has been published by Virtualbookworm.com Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08 with categories.
This is a accurate account of a time (smoking & quitting) that I consider some of the darker days in my life. I tried, to the best of my ability, to shed light on subjects and situations that the reader can relate to as a current smoker or as someone who has quit smoking- whether they be in heaven or hell for their choices. Cigarettes have their critics as you may know, but few, if any, express the joys and needs beyond the chemical additives we inhale every time we light up. It's not always the uncontrollable urges from a nicotine deficiency that causes people to run to the local convenience store at 1 A.M. for a fix; it's much more than that. And that itself is deadlier to me, anyways.