num_pages: 96
description: For some time now, writer-actor-performance artist Spalding Gray has been carrying around with him a monster: a manuscript of a novel called Impossible Vacation, a book that at last sighting weighed in at about 1,800 pages. Monster in a Box, Gray's latest monologue, is a guided tour between the stations of his writing block, which include a field trip to Nicaragua, a disastrous guest appearance at the Moscow film festival, and a stint in Los Angeles hunting down the fabled few who have never written a screenplay. Hilarious and poignant, Monster in a Box is further proof that Gray has not only captured the dangerous spirit of our age but swallowed it whole.
language: English
title: Monster in a Box
titlecomplete: Monster in a Box
genres: 20th Century, Essays, Theatre, Biography, Drama, Plays, Literature, Nonfiction, Memoir, Humor
ratings_count: 566
publisher: Vintage