The Smoking Diaries
- Author Simon Gray
- Narrator Simon Gray
- Publisher Faber & Faber
- Run Time 4 hours and 43 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Diaries, letters and journals, The Arts, Theatre studies.
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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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