True Grandeur - Barnes, Cal R.
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TRUE GRANDEUR is the tale of Conrad Arlington, a young man who moves to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming a great artist. Within a few short years of his arrival, Conrad's success as a writer brings him to the attention of Gracie Garrison, a beautiful and alluring socialite whose glamorous lifestyle is just as mysterious as the rumors that surround her. After spending a spirited and adventurous night on the town together - one fueled by an excess of beautiful people, extravagant parties, gallery openings, and the madness of a fallen director - Conrad ultimately falls in love with…mehr

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TRUE GRANDEUR is the tale of Conrad Arlington, a young man who moves to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming a great artist. Within a few short years of his arrival, Conrad's success as a writer brings him to the attention of Gracie Garrison, a beautiful and alluring socialite whose glamorous lifestyle is just as mysterious as the rumors that surround her. After spending a spirited and adventurous night on the town together - one fueled by an excess of beautiful people, extravagant parties, gallery openings, and the madness of a fallen director - Conrad ultimately falls in love with her, believing them to be destined. However, when he awakes the next morning to find that Gracie is gone, he is distraught, and thus embarks on his relentless journey to find her, resulting in a tumultuous spiral of passion, art, and romance as he searches his soul to try and uncover the greatest mystery of all - true love. At its core, True Grandeur is not just a love story, but rather an in-depth study on contemporary romanticism, of how ideals shape one's need for individuality and importance, and of how sociological factors such as fame, wealth, and social class contribute to one's ability to receive - or not receive - true love. It's a story of what it means to feel deeply, and attempts to accurately illustrate the internal progression of feeling that is the artist's journey.
Autorenporträt
CAL R. BARNES is an American novelist, actor, and filmmaker. He was born in Salem, OR in 1988. After studying creative writing, journalism, and drama at Portland State University in Portland, OR, Cal moved to Los Angeles in 2009 where he immediately began acting and writing screenplays. In 2011 he wrote his first novel, True Grandeur (published in 2017), a coming-of-age novel inspired by some of his earliest experiences as a young artist in Hollywood. At this time he began producing films as well, enjoying all aspects of the creative process. Between writing novels, acting jobs, and filmmaking, Cal runs his production company, Nineteen Films, in Los Angeles, CA. He recently wrote, directed, and starred in his feature film directorial debut, The Astrid Experience, which is scheduled to be released in 2022. Son of Neverland is his second novel. He was inspired to write it due to his love for J.M. Barrie's original novels The Little White Bird (1902), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906), and the ever-popular Peter and Wendy (1911), in which he discovered the seed for a great idea. His current goal in the entertainment industry is to make the feature film adaptation of Son of Neverland, in which he is attached to star as the principal character of Peter Pan. When Cal is not working, he is a connoisseur of film, literature, music, yoga, fruits, vegetables, coffee, tea, and sunshine.