The Books and Brunch book club meets on the third Saturday of each month at 11:30 am. This month, we are reading 'AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies' by Derek DelGaudio.
Truth and lies are two sides of the same coin, but who is flipping it? A thought-provoking and brilliantly entertaining work of non-fiction from one of the world's leading deceivers, the creator and star of the astonishing theater show and film In & Of Itself.
Derek DelGaudio believed he was a decent, honest man. However, 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 and sometimes dark journey to retrace 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. 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 he 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.
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AGE GROUP: | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Book Clubs |
