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Also by Spalding Gray:

Impossible Vacation, May 1993
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IMPOSSIBLE VACATION
By: Spalding Gray

Vintage
May 1993
On Sale: April 27, 1993
240 pages
ISBN: 0679745238
EAN: 9780679745235
Paperback
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Humor

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.

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