Edition:
CD-Audio
ISBN:
9780571244188
Published:
06.11.2008
No of pages:
None
Coda
Simon Gray
Coda
is Simon Gray's 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.
Produced by Jane Morgan at The Audio Workshop.
4CDs / Abridged by the author / Running time 4hrs 30min
Tags
Categorised as:
Non-fiction
Sub-categories:
Biography & Memoir
Genres & Themes:
Anecdotes;
British Theatre;
Diaries;
Smoking
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