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092			_aDELANEY, _bEDWARD
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aDelaney, Edward J., _d1957- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe acrobat / _cEdward J. Delaney.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aBrooklyn, New York : _bTurtle Point Press, _c[2022]
264		4	_c©2022.
300			_a267 pages ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0	0	_tConstellations -- _tRecognition -- _tCounterparts -- _tWorld as one finds it -- _tTowering man -- _tHall of doors -- _tBeginnings -- _tAquamarine -- _tFar shore -- _tStranger -- _tTumbling.
520			_aIt's 1959, and the 55-year-old man who calls himself Cary Grant is at the peak of a charmed career. He's also on a turbulent journey to find the core of a self he hardly seems to know anymore. Introduced to the wonder drug LSD as part of his therapy at The Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills, he embarks on upward of one hundred psychedelic trips--at times harrowing journeys. And on the way, he rediscovers the long-ago boy who faced the world as Archie Leach, the earnest, gap-toothed stilt walker and tumbler he once was, long ago. In The Acrobat, fiction writer Edward J. Delaney takes on the elusive character of Cary Grant. He imagines the inner life of a man who spent a career brilliantly creating a persona as ethereal as his best roles. As Grant launches on LSD-fueled trajectories of discovery, The Acrobat likewise transports readers through his fractured upbringing, his start in English vaudeville, his life on the Hollywood sets, and his relationships with fellow travelers prominent in his life: Howard Hughes, Randolph Scott, Blake Edwards, Tony Curtis, two of the five women he married, and more. Amid the endless versions of himself and the characters he's played, he yearns to shape himself into something singular, forged from the layers of illusion he's smilingly foisted on the world, and for which the world has come to love him. This riveting dramatization of the actor's life takes us beyond the firm terrain that biographies tread, to offer a new perspective on a complex Hollywood legend.
600	1	0	_aGrant, Cary, _d1904-1986 _vFiction.
650		0	_aMotion picture actors and actresses _zUnited States _vFiction. _9111725
650		0	_aEntertainers _zGreat Britain _vFiction.
655		7	_aBiographical fiction. _2lcgft _9682
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
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