num_pages: 228
description: Having detailed the agonies of writing a book in his monologue Monster in a Box, Spalding Gray now gives us the monster 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Impossible Vacation
titlecomplete: Impossible Vacation
genres: Fiction, Travel, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Humor, 20th Century, Contemporary
ratings_count: 821
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf