Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #115312 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 122 pages

The Good Book Guide
Laconic, never forced, and wonderfully self- deprecating, Gray rarely disappoints

The Daily Express
Gray was made a CBE in the New Years Honours. For these diaries alone he should be knighted.

About the Author
Simon Gray was born in England in 1936 and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of over 30 plays, including Butley (1971), Otherwise Engaged (1975), Quatermaine's Terms (1981), The Common Pursuit (1984), Cell Mates (1995) and Japes (2000) and has published several volumes of diaries and books about the theatre. He lives in London.

Customer Reviews

Incomprehensible title for theatrical rambling
I am a fan of Simon Gray's behind the scenes diaries of his theatrical productions. His book about Stephen Fry's decamping from one of his shows and turning up in Belgium is an irresistibly candid tale of the West End debacle that was Cell Mates, and the fact that the butt of his sometimes caustic jokes is usually himself means that he gets away with some bitter and revealing passages. This new book, about the rather less-successful progress of his play The Late Middle Classes, is more rambling and less focused than his previous efforts in this genre. He explains that he is learning how to use a computer as he writes, but this doesn't excuse the sheer inconsequentiality of some of this stuff. Just because you write down every single thought that pops into your head doesn't mean that somebody shouldn't have edited it before actually publishing the thing. Nonetheless, there are little gems to be found in amongst the ramblings. Shut up about the dog, though...

Not rambling but brilliant
Ignore what anyone else might say, Enter a Fox displays all of Simon Gray's usual wit and simply brilliant writing. Enjoy!