The Understudy: A Novel

I did not finish this book. The writing was good, but the subject matter left me cold. I read to page fifty, had a sneaking suspicion and skipped to the last twelve pages to check. I was correct in that the story hadn't moved on from the first fifty pages. It is a study in the psychology of a Broadway "Star" and his protégé; the gratitude, the resentments, the love and hate, the twist of the affections when the protégé becomes the Star and the old actor lives on his handouts. I'm not sure what the three hundred pages I didn't read were about, but I suggest they were only depressing. Your mileage may vary.