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Coda
- The Smoking Diaries, Volume 4
- Narrated by: Simon Gray
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
Oddly, or perhaps not oddly, come to think of it, the smoking ban came into effect about three days after I got the news - yes, now I do come to think of it, it seems more than odd, it seems eerily consequential, suggesting among other possibilities that I am so innately, organically obedient that my whole physical system submitted to the law in spite of my habits and inclination, and that my inner opposition to it was immediately met by the most appropriate and natural punishment - lung cancer.
So reflects the celebrated diarist and playwright Simon Gray during this frank, profoundly moving and often painfully funny account of what he refers to as 'the beginning of my dying'. During a holiday with his wife in Crete, Gray recalls the scans, consultations and biopsies that have dominated the previous months while offering unforgettable portraits of fellow tourists and digressions on everything from lying to the maître d' and concerns about tipping to crimes of passion and his new-found obsession with obituaries.
Written with a great generosity of spirit and a poignant reluctance to leave this world behind, Simon Gray's Coda is as life-affirming as it is heart-rending.
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"Highly addictive, often wildly funny but also, and this is increasingly the case, deeply moving.... [Simon Gray's diaries] are works of rare honesty, humanity, and wit that are surely destined to be read with pleasure a hundred years from now." (Sunday Telegraph)
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- Tony Turner
- 04-03-21
A good ending
Good in the sense that it's open-ended, with no suffering or dimlnution of powers.
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- Dr. W. Estridge
- 21-12-17
excellent
reading speed is a bit fast, need to slow it down to appreciate the humour and insights.
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