The last cigarette

Resource Information

The work The last cigarette represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

The last cigarette

Statement of responsibility

Simon Gray

Creator

• Gray, Simon, 1936-2008

Contributor

• Gray, Simon
• hoopla digital

Subject

• Cigarette smokers -- Great Britain -- Diaries
• Dramatists, English -- 20th century -- Diaries
• Gray, Simon, 1936-2008
• Smoking cessation
• Audiobooks

Genre

• Diaries

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Smoking Diaries, bk. 3

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

other

PerformerNote

Narrated by the author

Series statement

Smoking Diaries

Series volume

bk. 3

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable