Impossible Vacation

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 most engaging storytellers.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/27/1993
ISBN: 9780679745235
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/05/1993