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The colorful, morally complex life of Matthew Fleming, an actor of rare talent, from an impoverished but work-filled decade in Off-Broadway theaters through his ''overnight'' success on Broadway - then on to international acclaim as a charismatic movie star - is the ''stuff of this gripping novel.Matt is haunted by the belief his leap from obscurity to fame wasn''t due to his gift alone but also t...