The Acrobat

AN OPRAH DAILYBEST NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY

"Delaney['s] splendidfictional biography of Cary Grant . . . perfectly befits the glamour and fakeryof his subject."-Publishers Weekly(starred review)

"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant," mused the world's most famous leading man. Even Iwant to be Cary Grant."

It's 1959, and the 55-year-old man who calls himself CaryGrant is at the peakof a charmed career. He's also on a turbulent journey tofind the core of a selfhe hardly seems to know anymore. Introduced to the wonderdrug LSD as part ofhis therapy at The Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills,he embarks on upward ofone hundred psychedelic trips-at times harrowing journeys.And on the way, herediscovers the long-ago boy who faced the world as ArchieLeach, the earnest,gap-toothed stilt walker and tumbler he once was, long ago.

In The Acrobattrajectories of discovery, The Acrobatthat biographies tread, to offer a new perspective on acomplex Hollywood legend.