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092			_a921 Delgaudio
100	1		_aDelGaudio, Derek,
245	1	0	_aAmoralman : _ba true story and other lies / _cDerek DelGaudio.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bAlfred A Knopf, _c2021.
300			_a237 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm.
505	0		_aThe opposite of light -- The origin of a lie -- Where vanished things go -- Even secrets have secrets -- Heavyweight -- The read deal -- Road trip -- Sever years in a day -- What was Norman Rockwell hiding? -- First hand -- The good son -- Cons and pros -- In the light of the dark -- The difference.
520			_a"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." --front flyleaf.
600	1	0	_aDelGaudio, Derek.
600	1	0	_aDelGaudio, Derek _xDiaries.
650		0	_aAutoBiography.
650		0	_aMagicians _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aSelf-deception.
650		0	_aSwindlers and swindling.
650		0	_aTruthfulness and falsehood.
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