Morning, Noon and Night

Gray, Spalding

ISBN 10: 0374299854 / ISBN 13: 9780374299859

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1999

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This is a signed by author (Spalding Gray) on half title page, hardcover, first edition of Morning, Noon and Night by Spalding Gray. The book published in 1999 by Farrar Straus & Giroux is in fine condition in unclipped dust jacket in near fine condition with quarter inch tear at bottom front edge of jacket and with slight edgwear. 152 pages. ISBN 0374299854. Seller Inventory # 002944

Bibliographic Details

Title: Morning, Noon and Night

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

The hilarious new monologue about fatherhood, by the author of It's a Slippery Slope

In Morning, Noon and Night that master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the event-filled, emotionally charged and outrageously funny story of one day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son Theo. Horrified by the prospect of having another son, considering what he and his two brothers did to their father, and ambivalent about the idea of living in a small, quaint town on eastern Long Island that seems an odd detour for a man destined for California, Spalding comes to feel, of course, a profound affinity for his baby boy, born with the looks of "a wet, blue beaver." But this is not merely a father's account of an infant son; it's the story of his new life with his girlfriend Kathie; his regally precocious eleven-year-old stepdaughter, Marissa ("Please don't let me die a virgin!"); and his older son, Forrest, who stymies Spalding time and again with his metaphysical inquisitiveness: "Daddy, what's behind the stars?" "How do flies celebrate?" Cosmic questions that for Gray are reinforced by the view from his bedroom window-a seventeenth-century graveyard-a cold reminder to the author of the impermanence of things, the transient nature of his life, the strange calling of his profession, which brilliantly confirms Wordsworth's dictum that the child is father to the man.
A richly comic work about parenthood , about adults who don't grow up and children who do, that stands as Spalding Gray's most mature work to date.

About the Author:

Writer, actor, and performer, Spalding Gray is the author of It's a Slippery Slope (Noonday, 1997), Swimming to Cambodia, and Monster in a Box, among other works. He has appeared on PBS and HBO, and in numerous films, including Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields, David Byrne's True Stories, and, most recently, Steven Soderbergh's Gray's Anatomy. He lives with his family in Sag Harbor, New York.