IMPOSSIBLE VACATION [Inscribed]

Gray, Spalding

ISBN 10: 039456894X / ISBN 13: 9780394568942

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, 1992

About this Item

Octavo, 228 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is white with black lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$22.00" on front flap, has mild creasing along extremities and fore edge of front flap, mild general soiling, and adhesive residue along the spine, likely from a price sticker (now removed). Boards have mild shelving wear and discoloration along extremities. Textblock edges have mild foxing; faint brown staining along fore edge of front free endpaper. Inscribed "To Barbara, Please laugh" by Spalding Gray on half-title page. Shelved Room C. 1398126. Special Collections.

Seller Inventory # 1398126

Bibliographic Details

• Title: IMPOSSIBLE VACATION [Inscribed]
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039456894X
• ISBN 13: 9780394568942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

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.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap

led 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.


From the Trade Paperback edition.