| #1184093 in Books | Vintage | 1993-11-23 | 1993-11-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.25 x5.50l,.26 | File Name: 0679751785 | 96 pages |
||0 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| in good condition, but delivery took longer than expected|By sherylast|The book was in fine condition (as advertised), but it took over a week and a half from shipping date.|4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| My Heart is Popping|By Aco|To be able to see this maverick original perform live would have been a trea|From Publishers Weekly|Anyone who can imagine monologuist Gray's voice--ironic, neurotic, bemused by the world--will enjoy this new performance piece. In previous monologues, such as Swimming to Cambodia , Gray raided his own life, but this digs deeper, explori
In middle age Spalding Gray has entered "the Bermuda Triangle of Health," that place where the body begins to break down in alarming and humiliating ways. His immediate problem is an eye complaint that could be corrected with minor surgery. But for the high priest of high anxiety, nothing is ever minor. And so Gray embarks on a crazed crusade for wellness that takes him from a Native American sweat lodge to a dictatorial nutritionist and, finally, to a gory session with...