by Simon Gray · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781847080387
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«The Last Cigarette» is the third volume of playwright Simon Gray's diaries, published by Granta Books in paperback (312 pages, in English).
Simon Gray narrates in the first person his daily life and his attempt to quit smoking after sixty years of addiction, with digressions on his career as a playwright, writing and theatre. The diary includes confessions about the effects of tobacco on his health and the small anxieties of someone trying to give up the habit.
It is the third volume of the «The Smoking Diaries» series.
It is aimed at readers of memoirs and personal diaries, especially those interested in twentieth-century British theatre.
Simon James Holliday Gray was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to five published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film and television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes of memoirs or diaries.
