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THE ACROBAT
Recipient of the PEN/New England Award for Fiction and the O. Henry Prize Edward J. Delaney has written a fictional account of the life of Cary Grant, from his start in show business to the pinnacle of his success and the LSD therapy that sent him into the darkest regions of his own memory.
Delaney introduces readers to the film star who called himself Cary Grant in 1959. 55 years old and at the zenith of a charmed career, he's deep in a journey into the self. Guided through the wonders of LSD as part of his therapy at The Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills, Grant embarked on a hundred or more trips to the darkest regions of his own memory, of the long-ago person known to be Archie Leach.
With television, Method acting, and a slowly rising counterculture clouding the future for classic stars like Grant, his dreams turned back on themselves and into the past. Looking back to a life that was always resolutely devoted to never looking back a life pushing endlessly from difficult beginnings to ever-greater success Grant learns that the places he works toward are a weave of happiness and yearning and frustrations and mysteries and regrets.
In a series of LSD-rendered visions and dreams, Delaney portrays Grant searching for the man he really was, and was meant to be, hidden in the endless versions of himself and the myriad characters that he occupied. In these impressionistic renderings, Grant looks to be a different kind of man, and to repair past wounds inflicted on himself and others.
Alternating between Cary Grant's past and his present in the late-1950s, this riveting dramatization of the actor's life is the perfect book for classic film buffs, actors, and for all readers intrigued by radical journeys of self-exploration.
Edward J. Delaney is the author of several other books, including Broken Irish, which received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal, landed on several "best of the year" lists, and went on to receive the Editors' Choice Award from Booklist and the New England Book Festival Grand Prize. It was also optioned for a TV series.
Delaney introduces readers to the film star who called himself Cary Grant in 1959. 55 years old and at the zenith of a charmed career, he's deep in a journey into the self. Guided through the wonders of LSD as part of his therapy at The Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills, Grant embarked on a hundred or more trips to the darkest regions of his own memory, of the long-ago person known to be Archie Leach.
With television, Method acting, and a slowly rising counterculture clouding the future for classic stars like Grant, his dreams turned back on themselves and into the past. Looking back to a life that was always resolutely devoted to never looking back a life pushing endlessly from difficult beginnings to ever-greater success Grant learns that the places he works toward are a weave of happiness and yearning and frustrations and mysteries and regrets.
In a series of LSD-rendered visions and dreams, Delaney portrays Grant searching for the man he really was, and was meant to be, hidden in the endless versions of himself and the myriad characters that he occupied. In these impressionistic renderings, Grant looks to be a different kind of man, and to repair past wounds inflicted on himself and others.
Alternating between Cary Grant's past and his present in the late-1950s, this riveting dramatization of the actor's life is the perfect book for classic film buffs, actors, and for all readers intrigued by radical journeys of self-exploration.
Edward J. Delaney is the author of several other books, including Broken Irish, which received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal, landed on several "best of the year" lists, and went on to receive the Editors' Choice Award from Booklist and the New England Book Festival Grand Prize. It was also optioned for a TV series.
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Published 2022-11-01 by Turtle Point Press |