Impossible Vacation

{{Short description|1992 book}} {{Infobox book | italic title =  | name = Impossible Vacation | image = File:Impossible_Vacation.jpg | image_size = | border = | alt = | caption = | author = Spalding Gray | audio_read_by = | title_orig = | orig_lang_code = | title_working = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | release_number = | subject = | genre = Fiction | set_in = | publisher = Alfred A. Knopf<ref name=NYT/> | publisher2 = | pub_date = 1992 | english_pub_date = | published = | media_type = Print | pages = 228 pages<ref name=NYT/> | awards = | isbn = | isbn_note = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by =  | followed_by =  | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = | website = | module = }}

'''''Impossible Vacation''''' is a 1992 debut novel written by Spalding Gray.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|newspaper=The New York Times|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626015450/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/22/books/books-of-the-times-that-spalding-gray-novel-isn-t-a-monster-after-all.html|archivedate=June 26, 2013|title=Books of The Times; That Spalding Gray Novel Isn't a Monster, After All|author=Kakutani, Michiko|date=May 22, 1992|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/22/books/books-of-the-times-that-spalding-gray-novel-isn-t-a-monster-after-all.html}}</ref>

The novel is based on Gray's monologue that he performed in the film ''Monster in a Box''.<ref name=NYT2>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE0DD143CF936A35755C0A964958260|title=A 'Monster' Dense With Meaning|author=Canby, Vincent|authorlink=Vincent Canby| newspaper=The New York Times|date=5 June 1992|archivedate=May 26, 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526052613/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/movies/review-film-a-monster-dense-with-meaning.html}}</ref>

==Overview== Following his mother's suicide, a man named Brewster North travels the world in search for peace of mind.

==Critical reception== ''The New York Times'' said in its review, "One finishes the book impressed by how readily Mr. Gray's narrative voice transfers to the page; how easily he's been able to translate a performance from the stage to the medium of print."<ref name=NYT/>

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Category:1992 debut novels Category:1992 American novels Category:1992 English-language novels Category:Alfred A. Knopf books