Impossible Vacation

Name: Impossible Vacation
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ISBN: 9780679745235

ISBN-10: 0679745238

ISBN-13: 9780679745235

Edition: N/A

Authors: Spalding Gray

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Having detailed the agonies of writing a book in his monologue Monster in a Box, Spalding Gray now gives us the monster itself: a convulsively funny, unexpectedly moving novel about a man eternally searching for a moment of protected pleasure even as he is permanently incapable of finding it. Brewster North witnesses his mother's madness but misses her suicide; searches frantically for enlightenment in the Poconos and zipless sex in India; suffers family ennui in Rhode Island and a nervous breakdown in Amsterdam. In the process he emerges as a hilariously complex everyman. And as Gray narrates his hero's free fall, he confirms his own stature as one of our funniest, most eccentric, and…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/27/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.91" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

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. He lives with his family in Sag Harbor, New York.