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Article: Light shade of Gray; Critic's choice.(Book Review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 20, 2006
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Byline: MICHAEL ARDITTI
THE YEAR OF THE JOUNCER
by Simon Gray
(Granta, [pounds sterling]14.99)
THE professional life of a playwright is relatively short. Rare indeed are the Arthur Millers who continue to write productively - and to be produced successfully - into their ninth decade.
Simon Gray, the author of such Seventies West End hits as Butley and Otherwise Engaged, has made up for his theatrical silence by developing a profitable sideline as a memoirist.
After publishing witty and splenetic diaries of his stage productions, he broadened his canvas in the surprise bestseller, The Smoking Diaries, in which he ...