Enter a Fox : Further Adventures of a Paranoid

by Simon Gray

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.

122 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

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Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to 5 published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film, and television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes of memoirs or diaries

Reviews

[Tim Corcoran · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'd give 5 stars but just knocking the edge off the review seems appropriate.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

A brief read which is acerbically witty as Gray wrestles with getting his latest play put on and he learns to use his Apple Mac. He's a bit of a "grumpy old man" but the thing is I find myself agreeing with more and more that he has to say. The incident with the theatre box office lady is so true

[Janelle V. Dvorak · Rating 5 out of 5]

The deaths of your friends will always haunt you.

[Vincent Eaton · Rating 4 out of 5]

A delightful amuse bouche that came before his tremendous accomplishment, "The Smoking Diaries".