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The Smoking Diaries
- Author
- Simon Gray
- Narrator
- Simon Gray
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 13 December 2012
- Run Time
- 4 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
'The funniest book I've read all year.' Julian Barnes
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.
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; a record of shame, adultery, friendship and love. Few diarists have ever been so frank about themselves, and even fewer so entertaining.
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Details
- Author
- Simon Gray
- Narrator
- Simon Gray
- Duration
- 4 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 December 2012
- ISBN
- 9780571241415
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Theatre studies, Published diaries, letters and journals
Synopsis
'The funniest book I've read all year.' Julian Barnes 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. 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; a record of shame, adultery, friendship and love. Few diarists have ever been so frank about themselves, and even fewer so entertaining.
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