Derek Delgaudio

AMORALMAN (eBook, ePUB)

A True Story and Other Lies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Truth and lies are two sides of the same coin. But who's flipping it? A thought-provoking and brilliantly entertaining work of nonfiction from one of the world's leading deceivers, the creator and star of the astonishing theater show and forthcoming film In & Of Itself. Derek DelGaudio believed he was a decent, honest man. But when irrefutable evidence to the contrary is found in an old journal, his memories are reawakened and DelGaudio is forced to confront -- and try to understand -- his role in a significant act of deception from his past. Using his youthful notebook entries as a road map, DelGaudio embarks on a soulful, often funny, sometimes dark journey, retracing the path that led him to a world populated by charlatans, card cheats, and con artists. As stories are peeled away and artifices are revealed, Derek examines the mystery behind his father's vanishing act; the secret he inherited from his mother; the obsession he developed with sleight-of-hand that shaped his future; and the affinity he felt for the professional swindlers who taught him how to deceive others. It all leads to a period in his life when he finds himself working as a crooked dealer in a big-money Hollywood card game, where he begins to question his own sense of morality, and discovers that even a master of deception can find himself trapped inside an illusion. A M O R A L M A N is a wildly engaging exploration of the fictions we live as truths. It is ultimately a book about the lies we tell ourselves and the realities we manufacture in others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780525658566
• Artikelnr.: 59085778

Autorenporträt

Derek DelGaudio is a writer and performer, primarily known for his highly-acclaimed theater show, IN & OF ITSELF. He served as the Artist in Residence for Walt Disney Imagineering and cofounded the performance-art collective, A.BANDIT. Mr. DelGaudio lives in New York City.