Enter a Fox: Further Adventures of a Paranoid

by SimonGray (Author)

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  2005

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  How much can go wrong in a day? How much can go wrong in a life? In this chronicle of a year of things going wrong (and just occasionally right), the author of the acclaimed The Smoking Diaries meets with triumph and disaster and treats those two impostors just the same - which is to say with the mixture of wit, anger, vexation and candour that has made Simon Gray one of Britain's greatest writers of comedy - including the comedy that lurks in tragedy.

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  2001

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  'Tomorrow - no, fuckwit, later today, this afternoon or evening, Friday, I'm going to devote my diary to telling the story of the fate of my last play, The Late Middle Classes, and on into the story of what's happening, failing to happen, with my new play Japes (working title).' But, this being a Simon Gray diary, other avenues, not to mention parks, cinemas, river journeys, theatre outings, hospitals, trains, cars and of course George (the dog) provide an irresistible melange of hilarious anecdote and bleak, black humour. As always with Simon Gray, the elegance of the writing, coupled with his sheer disbelief at what the world throws at him, makes his work a joy to read.