Spalding Rockwell Gray (1941–2004)

Not sure how to rate it, but I finished the book in one sitting—so I guess that's a good sign.

Very difficult book to read, even though you know how it's going to end. Not what I was expecting. I would only recommend to people who are extremely interested in him.

I loved this author's experience in Thailand and empathized with his culture shock induced depression when he returned to New York. I wonder what kind of marriage he had and how his wife first learned of the infidelity described in the book. (Paul Theroux did the same thing in one of his railroad travel books. When he reprised the route several decades later he tells us that he was divorced shortly after returning from the first trip.) In Gray's case the aftermath was not divorce but suicide.