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Impossible Vacation
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries, Book 0
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ISBN10: 0679745238
ISBN13: 9780679745235
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Apr 27 1993
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679745235
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Apr 27 1993
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.
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