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The Last Cigarette (Third volume of The Smoking Diaries Trilogy.)

The Last Cigarette (Third volume of The Smoking Diaries Trilogy.)

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The Last Cigarette (Third volume of The Smoking Diaries Trilogy.)

by Gray, Simon

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London: Granta, 2008 9781847080387. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. No annotations or inscriptions. DW is not price-clipped. 312 pp. Size: 4vo. Blue cloth, as new, gilt titles to spine. An idiosyncratic mix of diary entries and autobiography. "In their combination of comedy and serious reflection, of sharp observation and painful self-disclosure," Simon Gray's diaries have reinvented the memoir form and are destined to become classics of autobiography". Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? As this wonderful record of Gray's life progresses, the question dwindles in the shadow of much larger ones. Will his name be in bright lights in Broadway? What was sex like before 1963? Why did he leave the bedside of his dying mother? Meanwhile, what is that lady doing with her nose on the plane in Athens? In their combination of comedy and serious reflection, of sharp observation and painful self-disclosure, Simon Gray's diaries have reinvented the memoir form and are destined to become classics of autobiography. .

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Title
The Last Cigarette (Third volume of The Smoking Diaries Trilogy.)
Author
Gray, Simon
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
1847080383
ISBN 13
9781847080387
Publisher
London: Granta, 2008 9781847080387
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
4/7/2008
Keywords
Diaries Theatre Plays Smoking Travel London Hampstead Humour AutobiographyQSE

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