Simon Gray (1) (1936–2008)
Autor(a) de The Smoking Diaries
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About the Author
Playwright Simon Gray was born in Hayling Island, Hampshire, England on October 21, 1936. He received degrees from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and from Cambridge University. He has edited a literary review (like the characters in The Common Pursuit) and taught drama, mostrar mais poetry, and English literature in universities, both major and provincial. He has written 40 plays, television plays, and screenplays and five novels, and adapted Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot for the National Theatre. Some of his works include Butley, Otherwise Engaged, Quartermaine's Terms, The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer, and The Last Cigarette. He died on August 6, 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de Simon Gray
Simon Gray Four Plays: "The Pig Trade", "In the Vale of Health", "Japes", "The Holy Terror" (2004) 7 cópias
Key Plays: "Butley", "Otherwise Engaged", "Close of Play", "Quartermaine's Terms", "The Late Middle Classes" (2002) 6 cópias
Common Pursuit, The 2 cópias
The definitive Simon Gray. 2 2 cópias
Pig in a Poke 2 cópias
Man in a Side-Car 2 cópias
Plaintiffs and Defendants 2 cópias
Two Sundays 2 cópias
The Caramel Crisis (in The Definitive Simon Gray I) 1 exemplar(es)
Simon Gray : 2008 1 exemplar(es)
Simon Gray: Four Plays 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Contribuinte — 82 cópias
The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays: 70 Scenes for Two Actors, from Today's Hottest Playwrights (1988) — Contribuinte — 80 cópias
Screen Two: They Never Slept (TV Episode, 1991) — Screenwriter — 2 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Gray, Simon James Holliday
- Data de nascimento
- 1936-10-21
- Data de falecimento
- 2008-08-07
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Hayling Island, Hampshire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Notting Hill, West London, England, UK
Hayling Island, Hampshire, England, UK
Montreal, Canada - Educação
- Westminster School, London
Dalhousie University
University of Cambridge (Trinity College) - Ocupação
- playwright
lecturer (university)
screenwriter
novelist
memoirist - Relacionamentos
- Pinter, Harold (creative partnership)
Bates, Alan (creative partnership)
Rothschild, Emma (sister-in-law)
Rothschild, Baron Nathaniel Mayer Victor (father-in-law) - Organizações
- University of London (Queen Mary's College)
- Premiações
- Order of the British Empire (Commander ∙ 2004)
Membros
Resenhas
A Month in the Country [VHS] de Colin Firth
Faithful and honorable adaptation; delightful to watch those two golden boys Firth and Branagh finding their excellence.
Otherwise Engaged, Two Sundays, Plaintiffs and Defendants
Arrgghhhhhhhhhhh!! Finally our hero has sex for the first time and...
It's a complete fucking cockup.
Or rather, even worse, it isn't. Quite the opposite if the truth be told. Truth? 'It's a novel' I say to Manny this morning. 'Ha. That's what they all say.'
I am truly shocked by the fact that not one review of this exists, not even a precis of the book or a picture of the cover on goodreads.
But grist to my mill, of course. The utterly pathetic you-all-should-be hanging-your-heads-in-shame-that-you-only-read-the-fashionable and that the period of 20-40 years before the present is always despised for NO GOOD REASON. Not even a bad reason.
More to come when I finish.
Finally updated here: http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/little-portia-by-simon-gra...… (mais)
It's a complete fucking cockup.
Or rather, even worse, it isn't. Quite the opposite if the truth be told. Truth? 'It's a novel' I say to Manny this morning. 'Ha. That's what they all say.'
I am truly shocked by the fact that not one review of this exists, not even a precis of the book or a picture of the cover on goodreads.
But grist to my mill, of course. The utterly pathetic you-all-should-be hanging-your-heads-in-shame-that-you-only-read-the-fashionable and that the period of 20-40 years before the present is always despised for NO GOOD REASON. Not even a bad reason.
More to come when I finish.
Finally updated here: http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/little-portia-by-simon-gra...… (mais)
Maybe it's all in the timing. I fully expected to like this, having liked him in both novel and play form. But I started this immediately after Waiting for the Barbarians, and the juxtaposition made it so painfully trite in the most unbearably bourgeois way that I was compelled to stop just a little way in.
Maybe I should leave it on the shelf for a few years and come back to it, but I'm pretty sure I don't have enough time in my bookreading life left. So it is getting the gong; may it find an appreciative reader in my local English church's booksale.
… (mais)
Maybe I should leave it on the shelf for a few years and come back to it, but I'm pretty sure I don't have enough time in my bookreading life left. So it is getting the gong; may it find an appreciative reader in my local English church's booksale.
… (mais)
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