The Smoking Diaries Volume 3: The Last Cigarette
Autor Simon Grayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2008
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.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781847080721
ISBN-10: 1847080723
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: ill
Dimensiuni: 131 x 201 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Granta Books
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1847080723
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: ill
Dimensiuni: 131 x 201 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Granta Books
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Recenzii
A great achievement, a terrific read, every page crammed with jokes, philosophical observations - Lloyd Evans, Spectator
His apparently spontaneous, but I suspect meticulously crafted journals are highly addictive, often wildly funny but also, and this is increasingly the case, deeply moving ... they are works of rare honesty, humanity and wit that are surely destined to be read with pleasure a hundred years from now - Sunday Telegraph
There are few things more enjoyable than reading the diaries of Simon Gray ... very, very funny - Irish Mail on Sunday
A new volume of diaries from Simon Gray is always a rare treat - Evening Standard
His apparently spontaneous, but I suspect meticulously crafted journals are highly addictive, often wildly funny but also, and this is increasingly the case, deeply moving ... they are works of rare honesty, humanity and wit that are surely destined to be read with pleasure a hundred years from now - Sunday Telegraph
There are few things more enjoyable than reading the diaries of Simon Gray ... very, very funny - Irish Mail on Sunday
A new volume of diaries from Simon Gray is always a rare treat - Evening Standard
Notă biografică
SIMON GRAY was born in England in 1936 and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was the author of over 30 plays, including Butley, The Common Pursuit and Cell Mates, and published several volumes of diaries and books about the theatre, including Enter a Fox and Fat Chance, both published by Granta. He was awarded a CBE in 2005. He died in 2008.
Extras
I’m still in Suffolk, where it’s a typical August afternoon, cold and
damp, with England losing a test match in Birmingham, and things
can’t go on like this. I say that, but how can they change? Well, I can
make them change by stating categorically –That intend to give up smoking.
I’ve left out the ‘I’. Do it again, with the ‘I’ in it. I intend to give up smoking.
There. I’ve put it down. It’s legible, in firm, blue ballpoint. There’s
no getting away from it because it’s plonk in the middle of the page,
and to tear it out would be cheating.
This diary is going to be about my attempt to give up smoking.
It is also going to be my main help in giving up smoking. By the
time I’ve finished it I will be a free man, able to leave the house
without my two packets of cigarettes, and my two lighters, able to
sit down and read without compulsively checking that I’ve got
these four articles in place on the desk in front of me or on the
little table beside me. I shall never again have to grope for a
cigarette while watching television, fly into a panic when I can’t
put my hand straight on the package – is that an unintended
double entendre, ‘put my hand straight on the package’? I have an
idea that ‘package’ has a salacious meaning, or am I thinking of
‘parcel’?
Nor worry that I might fall asleep with a cigarette burning on the
brink of the ashtray, or while hanging from my lips.
There will be no cigarette burns – at least of my making – on my
trousers and my shirt fronts.
The cuffs of my cardigans will no longer be singed. No, that’s not
right. I am devoted to my two cardigans, which are identical in
every respect, including the location and the extent of the singes, so
to put it accurately, there will be no further singes on my two
cardigans. In the unlikely event that I ever have a new cardigan, and
that I wear it, it will never be singed at the cuffs. At least not by me.
damp, with England losing a test match in Birmingham, and things
can’t go on like this. I say that, but how can they change? Well, I can
make them change by stating categorically –That intend to give up smoking.
I’ve left out the ‘I’. Do it again, with the ‘I’ in it. I intend to give up smoking.
There. I’ve put it down. It’s legible, in firm, blue ballpoint. There’s
no getting away from it because it’s plonk in the middle of the page,
and to tear it out would be cheating.
This diary is going to be about my attempt to give up smoking.
It is also going to be my main help in giving up smoking. By the
time I’ve finished it I will be a free man, able to leave the house
without my two packets of cigarettes, and my two lighters, able to
sit down and read without compulsively checking that I’ve got
these four articles in place on the desk in front of me or on the
little table beside me. I shall never again have to grope for a
cigarette while watching television, fly into a panic when I can’t
put my hand straight on the package – is that an unintended
double entendre, ‘put my hand straight on the package’? I have an
idea that ‘package’ has a salacious meaning, or am I thinking of
‘parcel’?
Nor worry that I might fall asleep with a cigarette burning on the
brink of the ashtray, or while hanging from my lips.
There will be no cigarette burns – at least of my making – on my
trousers and my shirt fronts.
The cuffs of my cardigans will no longer be singed. No, that’s not
right. I am devoted to my two cardigans, which are identical in
every respect, including the location and the extent of the singes, so
to put it accurately, there will be no further singes on my two
cardigans. In the unlikely event that I ever have a new cardigan, and
that I wear it, it will never be singed at the cuffs. At least not by me.
Descriere
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.
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.