The Acrobat

"'Everyone wants to be Cary Grant,' mused the world's most famous leading man. 'Even I want to be Cary Grant.' Who was Cary Grant, really? Who was he meant to be? Who in the end did he want to become? It is 1959, the year of his greatest successes but also at the zenith of a charmed career, and the 55-year-old man who calls himself Cary Grant is on a deep journey into the self. Introduced to the wonders of LSD as part of his therapy at The Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills, he embarks on the hundred or more trips into his past, to the long-ago person he knows to be Archie Leach. The Acrobat combines fact and fiction, ... using Grant's altered state as a jumping off point for each chapter"