[PDF] The Smoking Diaries Volume 3 eBook

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1847088546

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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 : pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 184708866X

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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 :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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'Coda' is Simon Gray's powerful account of the year in which he struggles to come to terms with terminal lung cancer. From heartbreaking reflections on his own mortality to outrageous asides Gray's self-proclaimed 'last written words on the subject of myself' records his extraordinary emotional journey.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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In this volume, Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Can he kick the habit of sixty years?

Author : Daniel F. Seidman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1439123551

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I'M TOO STRESSED TO STOP. I'LL GAIN WEIGHT IF I QUIT. I'VE TRIED AND FAILED TOO MANY TIMES TO COUNT. Why are you still smoking, even though you want to quit? Based on twenty years of research and hands-on work with countless smokers in his clinics at Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Daniel F. Seidman understands that people smoke -- and quit -- for different reasons and what works for one smoker might not work for another. • Are you a Situational Smoker? Monitoring your reactions in different situations is a step toward permanently losing interest in cigarettes. • Are you a Worried-about-Weight Smoker? Properly using treatments like Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) can help you quit and get healthy in all aspects of your life. • Are you an Emotion-Triggered Smoker? Scheduling your smoking breaks and sticking to a rigid "smoking schedule" helps break the link between stressful situations and craving cigarettes. In a comprehensive, 30-day program, Dr. Seidman explains how to retrain your brain, take advantage of all the tools at your disposal, and end the month smoke-free and feeling stronger than ever!

Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374279127

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Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

Author : Alex Michaelides
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250301718

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**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 : 21,26 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 9781862077454

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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 : Abigail Thomas
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0156033232

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Author Abigail Thomas shares the story of how she started a new life after an accident left her husband brain damaged and institutionalized.

Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Granta Books (UK)
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 9781847080585

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With their combination of comedy and serious reflection, of sharp observation and painful self-disclosure, Simon Gray's diaries have reinvented the memoir form and are destined to become classics of autobiography.