{"product_id":"the-acrobat-9781885983039","title":"The Acrobat","description":"\u003cb\u003eAN \u003ci\u003eOPRAH DAILY\u003c\/i\u003e BEST NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Delaney['s] splendid\u003cbr\u003efictional biography of Cary Grant . . . perfectly befits the glamour and fakery\u003cbr\u003eof his subject.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant,\" mused the world's most famous leading man. Even I want to be Cary Grant.\"\u003c\/p\u003eIt's 1959, and the 55-year-old man who calls himself Cary\u003cbr\u003eGrant is at the peak of a charmed career. He's also on a turbulent journey to\u003cbr\u003efind the core of a self he hardly seems to know anymore. Introduced to the wonder\u003cbr\u003edrug LSD as part of his therapy at The Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills, \u003cbr\u003ehe embarks on upward of one hundred psychedelic trips--at times harrowing journeys.\u003cbr\u003eAnd on the way, he rediscovers the long-ago boy who faced the world as Archie\u003cbr\u003eLeach, the earnest, gap-toothed stilt walker and tumbler he once was, long ago. In \u003ci\u003eThe Acrobat\u003c\/i\u003e, fiction writer Edward J. Delaney takes on\u003cbr\u003ethe elusive character of Cary Grant. He imagines the inner life of a man who spent\u003cbr\u003ea career brilliantly creating a persona as ethereal as his best roles. As Grant\u003cbr\u003elaunches on LSD-fueled trajectories of discovery, \u003ci\u003e The Acrobat\u003c\/i\u003e likewise transports\u003cbr\u003ereaders through his fractured upbringing, his start in English vaudeville, his\u003cbr\u003elife on the Hollywood sets, and his relationships with fellow travelers prominent in his\u003cbr\u003elife: Howard Hughes, Randolph Scott, Blake Edwards, Tony Curtis, two of the five\u003cbr\u003ewomen he married, and more. Amid the endless versions of himself and the\u003cbr\u003echaracters he's played, he yearns to shape himself into something singular, forged from\u003cbr\u003ethe layers of illusion he's smilingly foisted on the world, and for which the world\u003cbr\u003ehas come to love him. This riveting dramatization of the actor's life takes us\u003cbr\u003ebeyond the firm terrain that biographies tread, to offer a new perspective on a\u003cbr\u003ecomplex Hollywood legend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward J. Delaney is an award-winning author, journalist, filmmaker, and educator whose previous works of fiction include \u003cem\u003eThe Big Impossible, Follow the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBroken Irish\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Turtle Point Press. He is the recipient of a PEN\/New England Award for Fiction, an O. Henry Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He lives in Bristol, Rhode Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Turtle Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725719867666,"sku":"9781885983039","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_78708ba8-88ef-4ecc-b269-34951edbf764.jpg?v=1734841262","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-acrobat-9781885983039","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}