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Article: Gray's tales are filled with colour.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2006
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Byline: JEREMY LEWIS
The Year Of The Jouncer by Simon Gray .[pounds sterling]11.99 (0870 165 0870) Granta [pounds sterling]14.99
Simon Gray is best known as a playwright, but he has also perfected a hybrid literary genre in which a diary of everyday events is interlaced with strands of autobiography and rueful ruminations about his own inadequacies.
As such, his books tend to be formulaic - and are all the better for it.
Their ingredients include the agonies of staging a play, long lunches with his friend Harold Pinter, and curmudgeonly comments on modern British youth and culture. They also include flashbacks to his childhood in ...