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050	0	0	_aPS3557.R333 _bZ46 2011
082	0	0	_a92 GRA
100	1		_aGray, Spalding _d, 1941-2004
245	1	4	_aThe journals of Spalding Gray _c/ edited by Nell Casey
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2011.
300			_axxii, 340p., [16]p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 25cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- The sixties -- The seventies -- The eighties -- The nineties -- 2000-2004.
520			_aRiveting, funny, heartbreaking, at once raw and lyrical: these journals reveal the complexity of the actor/writer who invented the autobiographical monologue and perfected the form in such celebrated works as Swimming to Cambodia. Here is the first intimate portrait we have of the man behind the charismatic performer who ended his life in 2004: evolving artist, conflicted celebrity, a man struggling for years with depression before finally succumbing to its most desperate impulse. Begun when he was twenty-five, the journals give us Gray's reflections on his childhood; his craving for success; the downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s; his love affairs, marriages and fatherhood; his travels in Europe and Asia; and throughout, his passion for the theater, where he worked to balance his compulsion to tell all with his terror of having his deepest secrets exposed. Culled from more than five thousand pages and including interviews with friends, colleagues, lovers, and family, The Journals of Spalding Gray gives us a haunting portrait of a creative genius who we thought had told us everything about himself-until now.
600		0	_aGray, Spalding _d(, 1941-2004) _v--Diaries
650		4	_aDramatists, American _y-20th century _v--Biography
650		0	_aScreenwriters _x--United States -- Biography
650		4	_aActors _z-United States _v--Biography
700	1		_aCasey, Nell _d, 1971-
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