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Impossible Vacation Paperback - 1993 - 1st Edition

by Spalding Gray

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. And as Gray narrates his hero's freefall, he confirms his stature as one of our funniest, most eccentric, and engaging storytellers.


From the rear cover

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 the man eternally searching for a moment of protected pleasure even as he is permanently incapable of finding it.

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  • Title Impossible Vacation
  • Author Spalding Gray
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1993-04-27
  • ISBN 9780679745235 / 0679745238
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92050593
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"Quintessential Gray, unique in [its] rueful blend of curiosity, self-mockery and panic."

-- The New York Times Book Review

"Beautifully written, with all the visually organic wit of Gray's best monologue writing, as well as...emotional power [and] loopy nobility." -- Newsday

"An intimate, casual voice, capable of discussing anything from pornographic films to Chekhov's 'Sea Gull,' from acid trips to family holidays, with lightly ironic candor. One finishes the book impressed by how readily Gray's narrative voice transfers to the page."

-- The New York Times

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 04/05/1993, Page 0

About the author

Spalding Gray was born and raised in Rhode Island. A cofounder of the acclaimed New York City theater company the Wooster Group, he appeared on Broadway and in numerous films, including Roland Joff's The Killing Fields, David Byrne's True Stories, Garry Marshall's Beaches, and as the subject of the 2010 Steven Soderbergh documentary, And Everything is Going Fine. His monologues include Sex and Death to the Age 14, Swimming to Cambodia, Monster in a Box, Gray's Anatomy, and It's a Slippery Slope. He died in 2004.
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