Full name: The Confessions of Edward Day: A Novel

Author: Valerie Martin Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780385525848 9780307389206 0385525842 0307389200

Acclaimed author Valerie Martin returns with a dark comedy about love, sex, an actor's ambition, and the perils of playing a role too well. In this fictional memoir, Valerie Martin brilliantly re-creates the seamy theater world of 1970s New York, when rents were cheap, love was free, and nudity on stage was the latest craze. Edward Day, a talented and ambitious young actor finds his life forever altered during a weekend party on the Jersey Shore, where he seduces the delicious Madeleine Delavergne and is saved from drowning by the mysterious Guy Margate, a man who bears an eerie physical resemblance to Edward. Forever after, Edward is torn between his desire for Madeleine and his indebtedness to Guy, his rival in love and in art, on stage and off. Similar books: The Great Divorce by Valerie Martin Trespass by Valerie Martin Italian Fever by Valerie Martin It Ends with Revelations by Dodie Smith Andrew's Brain by E. L. Doctorow Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley This Side of Innocence by Taylor Caldwell Point of No Return by John P. Marquand Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge Daughter of Silence by Morris West The Plot by Irving Wallace The Insult by Rupert Thomson The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin Ticket to Ride by Dennis Potter The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd Want Not by Jonathan Miles Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo