The Smoking Diaries Volume 3

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : 52,7 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 : Katie Macalister
Publisher : Keeper Shelf Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945961472

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Up in Smoke by Katie Macalister Pdf

Though May Northcott’s heart belongs to Gabriel Tauhou, leader of the silver dragons, being stuck in Abaddon has significantly cooled down her love life—especially since a demon lord is trying to woo her. So far, May has resisted his efforts, but it’s getting increasingly harder to thwart disaster. So May is shocked when Gabriel encourages her to give in to the demon prince. But her fire-breathing boyfriend has an ulterior motive. Since May was created in the mortal world, her surrender would give her master access to that world, where he would lose most of his powers. It looks as though May will have to barter to gain her freedom and fulfill her destiny by Gabriel’s side. But will a deal with the devil make life heaven or hell?

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books (UK)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015076149999

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Coda by Simon Gray Pdf

Written with exceptional candour and a poignant reluctance to leave this world behind, Coda is as life-affirming as it is heartbreaking.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Anonymous
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442480940

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Jay's Journal by Anonymous Pdf

Originally published: New York: Times Books, 1979.

Author : Alex Michaelides
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 1862077452

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Enter a Fox by Simon Gray Pdf

How much can go wrong in a day? How much can go wrong in a life? In this chronicle of a year of things going wrong (and just occasionally right), the author of the acclaimed The Smoking Diaries meets with triumph and disaster and treats those two impostors just the same - which is to say with the mixture of wit, anger, vexation and candour that has made Simon Gray one of Britain's greatest writers of comedy - including the comedy that lurks in tragedy.

Author : Grant Lawrence
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550176476

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Adventures in Solitude by Grant Lawrence Pdf

From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel “Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim “Spilsbury’s Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia’s most popular marine park. In this hilarious and captivating book, CBC personality Grant Lawrence adds a whole new chapter to the saga of this storied piece of BC coastline. Young Grant’s father bought a piece of land next to the park in the 1970s, just in time to encounter the gun-toting cougar lady, left-over hippies, outlaw bikers and an assortment of other characters. In those years Desolation Sound was a place where going to the neighbours’ potluck meant being met with hugs from portly naked hippies and where Russell the Hermit’s school of life (boating, fishing, and rock ’n’ roll) was Grant’s personal Enlightenment—an influence that would take him away from the coast to a life of music and journalism and eventually back again. With rock band buddies and a few cases of beer in tow, an older, cooler Grant returns to regale us with tales of “going bush,” the tempting dilemma of finding an unguarded grow-op, and his awkward struggle to convince a couple of visiting kayakers that he’s a legit CBC radio host while sporting a wild beard and body wounds and gesticulating with a machete. With plenty of laugh-out-loud humour and inspired reverence, Adventures in Solitude delights us with the unique history of a place and the growth of a young man amidst the magic of Desolation Sound.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : OCLC:898844109

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The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray Pdf

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060533994

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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend Pdf

Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his father?); the BBC refuses to publish his poetry; and his dog swallowed the tree off the Christmas cake. "Why" indeed.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547792178

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.