AN OPRAH DAILYamp160BEST NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORYDelaneyamp8216s splendidamp10fictional biography of Cary Grant . . . perfectly befits the glamour and fakeryamp10of his subject.amp160Publishers Weeklyamp160starred reviewamp8220Everyone wants to be Cary Grantamp8221 mused the worlds most famous leading man. Even Iamp160want to be Cary Grant.amp8221Itamp8217s 1959 and the 55yearold man who calls himself Caryamp10Grant is at the peakamp160of a charmed career. Heamp8217s also on a turbulent journey toamp10find the core of a selfamp160he hardly seems to know anymore. Introduced to the wonderamp10drug LSD as part ofamp160his therapy at The Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hillsamp10he embarks on upward ofamp160one hundred psychedelic tripsamp8212at times harrowing journeys.amp10And on the way heamp160rediscovers the longago boy who faced the world as Archieamp10Leach the earnestamp160gaptoothed stilt walker and tumbler he once was long ago.amp160 amp160 amp160In The Acrobat fiction writer Edward J. Delaney takes onamp10the elusive characteramp160of Cary Grant. He imagines the inner life of a man who spentamp10a career brilliantlyamp160creating a persona as ethereal as his best roles. As Grantamp10launches on LSDfueledamp160trajectories of discovery The Acrobat likewise transportsamp10readers through hisamp160fractured upbringing his start in English vaudeville hisamp10life on the Hollywood setsamp160and his relationships with fellow travelers prominent in hisamp10life Howard Hughesamp160Randolph Scott Blake Edwards Tony Curtis two of the fiveamp10women he marriedamp160and more. Amid the endless versions of himself and theamp10characters heamp8217s played heamp160yearns to shape himself into something singular forged fromamp10the layers of illusionamp160heamp8217s smilingly foisted on the world and for which the worldamp10has come to love him.amp160This riveting dramatization of the actoramp8217s life takes usamp10beyond the firm terrainamp160that biographies tread to o