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Swimming to Cambodia

by Spalding Gray

Biography & Memoir

1985

The author spent eight weeks in Southeast Asia creating the role of the Ambassador's aide for the Academy Award-winning film, "The Killing Fields." Inspired by his experiences there, he weaves a hilarious and hypnotic saga of the making of the epic war film.

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