by Simon Gray · Granta UK · tapa dura · ISBN 9781862078963
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«The Year of the Jouncer» is the diary of English playwright Simon Gray, published by Granta UK in hardback (240 pages, in English).
Simon Gray recounts a year of his life with the humour and honesty that define his diaries: from his desk, among pigeons and before the Caribbean Sea, he reviews his experiences, his craft as a playwright and the world around him, in an ironic and moving account.
Simon Gray (1936-2008) was an English playwright and author of The Smoking Diaries; this work, published in 2006, is part of his diaries.
For readers of diaries and literary memoirs, with a special interest in English theatre and twentieth-century autobiographical writing.
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.
