This title is the re-issue of a cult classic 20 years after first publication - a soul-baring monologue inspired by "The Killing Fields". Hired as an actor in Roland Joffe's extraordinary film, "The Killing Fields", Spalding Gray turned his experiences into a monologue which he performed all over the world and which, since it was subsequently filmed on its own account, has acquired more than cult status. Originally published by "Picador" in the UK but now out of print, "Swimming to Cambodia" is re-issued twenty years after first publication and two years after the death of the author. As well as offering an eloquent anatomy of South-East Asia, "Swimming to Cambodia" is laden with movie gossip. Names are dropped, marijuana is smoked, the bordellos of Bangkok are visited. But behind it all lies the genocide that claimed two million lives under the Pol Pot regime. Famed for a kind of emotional exhibitionism that would put Woody Allen to shame, Gray uses himself as raw material.