The Last Cigarette (Third volume of The Smoking Diaries Trilogy.)
by Gray, Simon
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 1847080383
- ISBN 13
- 9781847080387
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2458
- 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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David Edward Hellawell
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
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