Readers will enjoy the fantasy journey of the protagonist, Michelangelo DiCaprio, as he ventures forth to find a new life beyond the Great Wall that divides the United States and California. In this unique work of magical realism, MICHELANGELO DICAPRIO: THE BEST ACTOR, author Mark Harris captivates readers with his use of humor, irony, and play on words to ultimately create a fictitious, yet strangely familiar world in which society’s norms are upended. The novel takes readers on the protagonist’s journey from the United States, a country depicted as underdeveloped and in deep decline and social disrepair, into the mythical world of a burgeoning and culturally lush California, which is no longer a part of the United States but rather a country unto itself.
As with any life quest, Michelangelo’s travels are fraught with danger and confusion. He must overcome many obstacles that attempt to overpower him and even threaten to take his life. Ultimately, Michelangelo is forced by a mysterious phantom to become an actor and to fight for the coveted A-Star Award for Best Actor given only to Hollywood’s most accomplished actors. Our protagonist has the opportunity to play the most prized role of all – that of God, himself. Will his quest for greatness succeed through his dogged determination or will he succumb to more powerful forces that seek to destroy him and his surroundings?
Author Mark Harris renders a brilliant story of an imagined world in which the protagonist is deeply challenged by his desires and emotions as he negotiates a world of high tech beyond his experience or understanding. The author intrigues readers with his ingenious references to many familiar aspects of traditional culture, such as the graphic design on the US dollar and Michelangelo’s famous painting. Using a unique style of prose that will entertain and delight readers, Harris redefines the familiar and replaces it with an exciting and humorous new paradigm. MICHELANGELO DICAPRIO: THE BEST ACTOR is an invitation to escape the confines of realism and cross over the Great Wall, along with the protagonist, into the imagined world of the author’s creation. Michelangelo believes a better life awaits him in California, but his journey threatens to end in great destruction.
This novel will provide you with an exciting reading experience. Readers’ perceptions of the world as they know it will be delightfully overturned as the author, with bold imagination, presents the United States as a backward country, California as a developing country, and Mexico as a developed country. You will break from reality and travel into a new reality of time and place. When you close this book and return to your everyday life, you will find that the real world is somehow new.

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