Description
A first edition, first printing of Coda by Simon Gray, published by Granta Books, London in 2008. A near fine copy free from inscriptions, with some toning and spotting to the text block. In a near fine wrapper with a little bumping to the extremities and damp-staining internally.
Published posthumously in 2008, Coda is Simon Gray’s final, deeply affecting diary: an account of what he called “the beginning of my dying.” Diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, Gray reflects on scans, consultations and approaching death while holidaying in Crete with his wife, Victoria. Characteristically, fear and sadness mingle with irritation, gossip, self-mockery and sharp observation. Unsentimental but profoundly humane, Coda transforms the ordinary indignities of illness into something painfully funny, intimate and unexpectedly life-affirming.
