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.
language: English
title: Impossible Vacation
titlecomplete: Impossible Vacation
genres: 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Travel, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 821
publisher: Vintage