The Smoking Diaries Volume 3: The Last Cigarette

By Simon Gray

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847080723
• ISBN13: 9781847080721
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The genius of Simon Gray

These autobiographical "Smoking Diaries" are the most moving and simultaneously hilarious accounts of the sad ending of a wonderful writers' life