Impossible Vacation
by Spalding Rockwell Gray
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A perpetual malcontent who, in trying to recapture the bliss, innocence, and purity of childhood, seems doomed to find only the opposite.Tags
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Actor and performer Spalding Gray is the author of It's a Slippery Slope (Noonday, 1997), Swimming to Cambodia, and Monster in a Box, among other works. He has appeared on PBS and HBO, and in numerous films. He lives with his family in Sag Harbor, New York. (Bowker Author Biography)
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Brewster North
- Important places
- Rhode Island, USA; New York, New York, USA; Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; Poona, India; Ladakh, India
- Epigraph
- ''You will not know ... what these acts are until you have performed them all. And after you have performed them you will not understand that they were expiation any more than you have understood all the other expiation that ... (show all)has kept you in such prolonged humiliation. Then, when these final acts are complete, you will stop trying to die because of me.''
-WILLIAM KENNEDY, ironweed - Dedication
- TO MY MOTHER,
the Creator and Destroyer - First words
- AND I HALF DREAMED and half remembered Mom's never-ending passion for the sea.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)What a car!
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- Languages
- English
- Media
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