The Smoking Diaries Volume 4
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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.
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 Complete Smoking Diaries
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Author : Simon Gray
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2013
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 with Dramatists, English categories.
Collected in one spellbinding volume for the first time, these are the digressive, exuberant, rip-roaringly funny diaries of one of Britain's best writers and heaviest smokers
The Smoking Diaries
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Author : Simon Gray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The 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 Dramatists, English categories.
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 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 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.
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?
Diary Of Virginia Woolf Volume 4
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Author : Virginia Woolf
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2023-06-01
Diary Of Virginia Woolf Volume 4 written by Virginia Woolf and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-01 with Literary Collections categories.
With an introduction by Margo Jefferson Thursday 28 May 1931. On Whit Monday the sun blazed, making the grass semi-transparent. And space & leisure seemed to lie all about; & I said, not once in an exstasy, but frequently & soberly, This is happiness. Why should I feel now calmer, quieter than ever before? This volume of Virginia Woolf's diary has a slower pace: she is finishing The Waves and wrestling with the shape of her next novel (The Years). These years are marred by the death of many of the people in her circle, including her close friend Lytton Strachey. Woolf also reflects on the political situation in Britain, and the menacing rise of fascism abroad. The diary testifies to the sense of external threat, as well as the tension between her social and her writing life, but as she and Leonard embark on a series of foreign trips she also revels in the discovery of new places and the profound contentment of her marriage.
Pinter S World
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Author : William Baker
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-09-15
Pinter S World written by William Baker and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Pinter’s World: Pinter and Company is not a full-scale biography but a series of illuminating chapters about Pinter’s life, character, and thought, employing new information found in his “Appointment Diaries,” recent biographical sources such as Simon Gray’s memoirs, and Henry Woolf’s reminiscences in addition to personal discussions with several in Pinter’s world. This book provides a fresh illumination of Pinter’s life and art, his friendships, obsessions, and concerns.Material is arranged around themes, key concerns, Pinter’s activities. Pinter’s meetings and endeavors, for instance, with whom he met and when, when he wrote what and when, and his perspective at the time are documented. This work explores Pinter’s writing: drama, poetry, prose, journalism, and letters, which are here regarded as part of his aesthetic achievement. Pinter’s World: Pinter and Company presents a pointillist portrait of him through examining central concerns in his life. These encompass an obsession with the theater and games; delight in restaurants, demonstrating that Pinter is far removed from the socially awkward isolated figures populating his early work; and the women in Pinter’s world. Other areas examined include Pinter’s political engagement, from his adolescence to his last years, and the literary and other creative influences upon him. This work draws upon consultation of his papers at the British Library, including letters to others, especially close friends with whom he kept close contact for over half a century. These letters should be regarded on par with his other creative accomplishments. Pinter was a fascinating letter writer, whose letters reveal thoughts at the time of writing often in abrupt most colorful idiomatic language. His “Appointment Diaries” cannot reveal what actually occurred during his meetings, but they do provide a guide to what he did on a daily basis and whom he met. Memories from his friends, his professional colleagues, cricket players, and his second wife, Antonia Fraser, illuminate Pinter’s personality and actions. Pinter’s first literary love was poetry and, unlike most other Pinter studies, this one gives attention to his neglected poetic output that often reveals the real Pinter and the enigma that is at the heart of every great artist.