Making a Drama Out of a Crisis ; Simon Gray Once Thought He Couldn't Write Without Drink but He has Proved Himself Wrong
Evening Standard - London › April 01, 2004
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ON the last page of Simon Gray's latest memoir, The Smoking Diaries, published by Granta this month, the author is pictured aged 10, cradling his baby brother, Piers, while he is protected by the encircling arm of his older brother, Nigel.
Simon and Nigel stare out, freshfaced and bold, straight at the camera.See the full content of this document
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Making a Drama Out of a Crisis ; Simon Gray Once Thought He Couldn't Write Without Drink but He has Proved Himself Wrong
The baby has a slightly averted gaze. It appears a conventional image of grey-flannelled family life circa 1946, except that Simon Gray was already a keen smoker by the time the snap was taken. The youngest, Piers, died in 1996 from alcohol poisoning, Gray, 67, has come to the same brink more than once.
A year after his brother's death, he fou...See the full content of this document
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