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Derek DelGaudio - Amoralman (2nd Hand Hardback)
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Synopsis
Subtitled : A True Story & Other Lies.
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 theatre 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 Derek 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, Derek 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. And once he finds himself working as a crooked dealer in a big-money Hollywood card game, Derek begins to question his own sense of morality, and discovers that even a master of deception can find himself trapped inside an illusion.
Amoralman 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.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Hardback (No Dust Jacket Issued)
- Condition : As New
- Category : Non-Fiction - Uncategorised
- Published : 2021 (Alfred A. Knopf - US Edition)
- ISBN : 9780525658559
- SKU : B003033
- PPC : SP500gm
- RRP : $27.00
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
Leather effect hardback cover.
External Reviews
"The truly unusual story of the author's lifelong obsession with perfecting his card magic skills, not for an audience, but for the sake of the mastery itself. The tale of how he becomes the secret weapon of professional crooked poker game organizers would have already made the book a fantastic read in its own right - but there is a deeper layer in which he shares his moral and philosophical struggles with his job that he dismisses with enough twisted justifications to allow himself to continue what was a clearly self-gratifying profession. Brilliant book."
"A story about cheating at poker, a story about growing being different, a story about telling stories. About truth and lie, and about the shadows in between. Easy to read, and easy to understand that everything is not always understood. That is the game. Play it and enjoy it." - Goodreads Reviews.
"A thought-provoking and brilliantly entertaining work of nonfiction, from one of the most acclaimed conjurors and gifted sleight-of-hand artists in a generation," - Google Books.
"This is a story of unending ironies and misconceptions. That which we expected to be the truth is a lie, or at least a partial fiction. Anecdotes could be true, but falsely attributed. Intentions could be and are misrepresented or misunderstood. Good guys turn out to be bad guys and vice versa. And the purpose of magic and sleight-of-hand in such a universe? It goes back to Plato’s cave, which reminds us that things are always different than they seem. We misunderstand context. We confuse shadowy representations for the things in and of themselves. We live in a shadowy, fictional world." - New York Times.
The Author
Derek DelGaudio is an American interdisciplinary artist, primarily known as a writer, performer and magician.