The Smoking Diaries Volume 2

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847088550

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The Smoking Diaries Volume 2 by Simon Gray Pdf

As a baby, Simon Gray discovered that he could move his pram while still nestling inside it. 'It was a complete mystery to the adult intelligences, how had he done it, if it was he who had done it, but if not he, who then and why? So the next afternoon they (Mummy and Nanny) planted the pram in the usual spot, and stood over it, watching - the baby lay there smiling or snivelling up at them, until it struck them that they should try observing the baby when unobserved by the baby, and they withdrew behind bushes and trees etc.; and thus witnessed the swaying of the pram, then the juddering of the pram, then its slow, unsteady progress along the path, the movement accompanied by a low humming and keening sound from within that reminded them more of a dog than a human ... "jouncing" was the word they used for it. I was a jouncer therefore.' In the second book of his chronicles of triumph and disaster which started with The Smoking Diaries, Gray intertwined scenes from his adult and his childish self to produce a brilliant and moving counterpoint of life's unsteady progress.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847088666

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The Complete Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray Pdf

When he turned sixty-five, playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary in which he reflected on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters, shame, adultery, friendship and love. Bringing together the four parts of The Smoking Diaries (The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer, The Last Cigarette, and Coda) this beautiful volume is filled with comedy and serious reflection, sharp observation and painful self-disclosure. A brilliant and moving account of life's unsteady progress, it takes the reader to the heart of one man's brilliant struggle towards some kind of personal truth.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 1847088481

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The Complete Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray Pdf

Collected in one spellbinding volume for the first time, these are the digressive, exuberant, rip-roaringly funny diaries of one of Britain's best writers and heaviest smokers

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : OCLC:898844109

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The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray Pdf

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847088529

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The Smoking Diaries Volume 4 by Simon Gray Pdf

Coda is Simon Gray's powerful account of the year in which he struggled to come to terms with terminal lung cancer. Darkly comic depictions of the medical team are set against joyful accounts of sunlit days with his beloved wife, Victoria. Written with exceptional candour and a poignant reluctance to leave this world behind, Simon Gray's Coda is as life-affirming as it is heart-rending. Sadly, Coda was published posthumously: Gray died in August 2008.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847088543

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The Smoking Diaries Volume 3 by Simon Gray Pdf

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.

Author : Chips Channon
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781473567207

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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2) by Chips Channon Pdf

The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon. This second volume of the bestselling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the Prime Minister so admired by Chips was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement, and on to the tribulations of the early years of the Second World War. It closes with a moment of hope, as Channon, in recording the fall of Mussolini in July 1943, reflects: 'The war must be more than half over.' For much of this period, Channon is genuinely an eye-witness to unfolding events. He reassures Neville Chamberlain as he fights for his political life in May 1940. He chats to Winston Churchill while the two men inspect the bombed-out chamber of the House of Commons a few months later. From his desk at the Foreign Office he charts the progress of the war. But with the departure of his boss 'Rab' Butler to the Ministry of Education, and Channon's subsequent exclusion from the corridors of power, his life changes - and with it the preoccupations and tone of the diaries. The conduct of the war remains a constant theme, but more personal preoccupations come increasingly to the fore. As he throws himself back into the pleasures of society, he records his encounters with the likes of Noël Coward, Prince Philip, General de Gaulle and Oscar Wilde's erstwhile lover Lord Alfred Douglas. He describes dinners with members of European royal dynasties, and recounts gossip and scandal about the great, the good and the less good. And he charts the implosion of his marriage and his burgeoning, passionate friendship with a young officer on Wavell's staff. These are diaries that bring a whole epoch vividly to life.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847088512

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The Smoking Diaries Volume 1 by Simon Gray Pdf

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. The Smoking Diaries was the result, in which one of Britain's most beloved and original writers reflected on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters, shame, adultery, friendship and love. Few diarists have been as frank about themselves, and even fewer as entertaining.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131681806

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Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray Pdf

In this volume, Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Can he kick the habit of sixty years?

Author : Bernard Donoughue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786732682

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Westminster Diary: Volume 2 by Bernard Donoughue Pdf

As New Labour's first period of government picks up steam, we find Bernard Donoughue working as a minister at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food. In this, the second volume of Donoughue's House of Lords diaries, he chronicles his experiences - often frustrating, often hilarious - serving in the early years of Blair's government, as he attempts to modernise MAFF by expanding its interests more broadly in rural affairs. It outlines Donoughue's role in the EU's agricultural policy, including as the UK minister at the Agriculture Council as well as his unofficial role in the lead-up to the Good Friday agreement. As with all Donoughue's diaries, the book sheds a spotlight on the daily trials and tribulations of life in Westminster, told with trademark waspish wit, insight and humour.

Author : Kunihiko Ikuhara,Kei Takahashi
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781645056942

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PENGUINDRUM (Light Novel) Vol. 2 by Kunihiko Ikuhara,Kei Takahashi Pdf

Shoma and Kanba seek out a girl named Oginome Ringo, who owns a strange diary that might be able to predict the future. Ringo is willing to trade them the diary--but only if they help her pull off an elaborate scheme of her own. Can the brothers assist Ringo with her quest in time to complete their own--or is the clock doomed to run out on Himari's second chance at life?!

Author : Simon Gray,Hugh Whitemore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015080867495

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The Last Cigarette by Simon Gray,Hugh Whitemore Pdf

Notable for his uncompromising honesty and a wit both fierce and fearless, Simon Gray's voice was uniquely his own - intelligent, probing and often outrageously funny. He faced life - and death - with unflinching courage and defiant humanity; even when writing about his own mortality, he lost none of his prodigious talent to entertain. Warm, candid and with a double dose of dark humour, this dramatisation of Gray's The Smoking Diaries and other memoirs was completed just before his death last summer. The Last Cigarette premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in March 2009.

Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448188567

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Pdf

An all-new edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, now featuring an introduction from Markus Zusak. In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, featuring poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experiences. It chronicles contemporary adolescence as seen through the eyes of one Native American boy. 'Excellent in every way' Neil Gaiman Illustrated in a contemporary cartoon style by Ellen Forney.

Author : Alex Michaelides
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250301710

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The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Pdf

**THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

Author : Ian Ruxton (ed.)
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780359146307

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The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, 1921-1926 - Volume Two (1924-1926) by Ian Ruxton (ed.) Pdf

The distinguished diplomat Sir Ernest Satow's retirement began in 1906 and continued until his death in August 1929. From 1907 he settled in the small town of Ottery St. Mary in rural East Devon, England. He was very active, serving as a British delegate at the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907 and on various committees related to church, missionary and other more local affairs: he was a magistrate and chairman of the Urban District Council. He had a very wide social circle of family, friends and former colleagues, with frequent distinguished visitors. He produced two seminal books: A Guide to Diplomatic Practice (1917, now in its seventh revised edition and referred to as 'Satow') and A Diplomat in Japan (1921). The latter is highly evaluated as a rare foreigner's view of the years leading to the Meiji Restoration of 1868. This book in two volumes is the last in a series of Satow's diaries edited by Ian Ruxton. This is the first-ever publication.