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X20

X20

by RichardBeard (Author)

Synopsis

Gregory Simpson is, after years of being paid to smoke a packet a day for research purposes, trying to give up. To keep his hands busy he decides to write a journal.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Mar 2005
ISBN 10: 0099477556
ISBN 13: 9780099477556
Book Overview: One of the most ingenious, resourceful and entertaining novelists in England' Philip Hensher.

Media Reviews
'Beard is as good on the sensuality of smoking as on the philosophy. This is an unusually intelligent, funny and readable first book' Sunday Times; 'Gregory Simpson is, after years of being paid to smoke a packet a day for research purposes, trying to give up. He decides to write to keep his hands busy and the resulting journal - combining memories of seduction, little-known facts about the tobacco industry and the comfortable camaraderie of the suicide club - is an elegant, witty and confident disquisition on smoking as desire and as a metaphor for desire' Observer; 'Populated by a cast of well-drawn eccentrics...loaded with encyclopaedic detail on the history and iconography of smoking, this comic novel nevertheless aims at deep seriousness...Beard's writing can be breathtaking' Daily Telegraph
Author Bio
Richard Beard studied at Cambridge, the Open University and the University of East Anglia. He is the author of three novels, X20, Damascus and The Cartoonist.