Monster in a Box

By Spalding Gray

For some time now, writer-actor-performance artist Spalding Gray has been carrying around with him a monster: a manuscript of a novel called Impossible Vacation, a book that at last sighting weighed in at about 1,800 pages. Monster in a Box is a guided tour between the stations of his writing block, which include a field trip to Nicaragua, a disastrous guest appearance at the Moscow film festival, and a stint in Los Angeles hunting down the fabled few who have never written a screenplay. Hilarious and poignant, Monster in a Box is further proof that Gray has not only captured the dangerous spirit of our age but swallowed it whole.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B001E2ZL6G
• ISBN13: 9780679737391
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

My Favorite

Spalding Gray's suicide robbed us of our finest raconteur. His monologues were funny as hell, but they were also deep and thought-provoking at the same time. He is missed. "Monster in a Box" is my favorite of Spalding's monologues- even better than "Swimming to Cambodia", in my opinion. I think with this one he really hit his stride.

Spalding Gray at his best

I greatly enjoyed Spalding Gray's work; much better than the later "Gray's Anatomy" and "It's a Slippery Slope".