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Impossible Vacation

Impossible Vacation Contemporary literature

Impossible Vacation

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
1993-04-27
Publication Date:
1993-04-27
Publisher:
Knopf
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679745238
ISBN13:
9780679745235
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
275 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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