Coda

Simon Gray

RRP: £14.99

Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS

Publication Date : 01/11/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

The fourth and final instalment of the hugely successful "Smoking Diaries". A moving and sometimes shockingly honest account of Gray's terminal illness, written in real time while waiting for his final diagnosis, and his last cigarette. From heartbreaking reflections about immortality to darkly comic depictions of the medical team, this poignant and thought-provoking autobiography will appeal to readers of John Diamond, Ruth Picardie and "The Diving Bell & The Butterfly". Simon Gray finally succumbed in August of this year, and more of his titles are being published in tribute.

Publisher's description:

Gives an account of the year in which the author struggles to come to terms with terminal cancer. From heartbreaking reflections on his own mortality to characteristically outrageous asides, this book contains the author's self-proclaimed 'last written words on the subject of myself' that records his extraordinary emotional journey.

ISBN: 9781847080943