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'Funny and deeply moving, the fourth volume of The Smoking Diaries charts Gray's final year in clear-eyed, poignant detail' --Sunday Times
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`Mordantly funny, unsparing of himself and others, desperately brave, it is both compulsive and agonising to read'
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This review is from: Coda (Hardcover)
This has to be one of the best books I have ever read. Funny, poignant and very real. I could feel the heat of the sun and the chapel wall he describes against my back. What a writer. What a loss
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Simon Gray wrote wonderfully. His digressions give one the impression that one is listening in to his unfiltered interior monologue. He is wise and witty and does not spare the doctors who dealt with him so insensitively. He castigates the consultant who told him he had a year to live for taking that year away from him. His autobiographical writings are a wonderful legacy.
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This review is from: Coda (Paperback)
Coda is the last of Simon Gray's four Smoking Diaries. I enjoyed all of them but, over the few years that Gray wrote his rambling, amusing and philosophical diaries/biography, my husband, who'd bought me the first of them, had cancer and died. At the end of the third diary, Simon Gray is also told he has terminal cancer. So it was with some trepidation that I approached the fourth as he goes through thinking about death, his wife and family, and his various doctors with their different approaches to his emotional state. He still managed to make me laugh out loud and still tackled difficult subjects and thoughts with his usual wonderful honesty. In particular I found it so useful in letting me realise what my husband was thinking over his last year - both of them no longer drinking; both smoking to the end. Men in particular are not much good at speaking about what they're feeling and it was wonderful that Simon Gray had his natural means of getting down his thoughts. This sounds a very personal review, but actually most of us are going to lose someone close and certainly we're all going to face death, so I'd say this is a book that everyone should read. It's not depressing, just illuminating, uplifting and witty.
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