Impossible Vacation (Picador)

by 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 most engaging storytellers.
  • ISBN10 1299211739
  • ISBN13 9781299211735
  • Publish Date 1 January 2011 (first published 5 May 1992)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 14 April 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Vintage
  • Format eBook
  • Language English