Publisher's Synopsis
"Enchantingly detailed and immensely appealing...a career making book." KIRKUS REVIEWS Born into a Jewish family in small-town Iowa, the only boy among six sisters, Mose Sharp couldn't leave home soon enough. By sixteen Mose had already joined the vaudeville circuit, but he needed a partner. Then an ebullient, self-destructive comedian named Rocky Carter came crashing into his life - and a thirty-year partnership was born. The comedy team of Carter and Sharp thrived from the vaudeville backwaters to Broadway to Hollywood, but soon cracks were appearing in their complex relationship - until one unforgivable act leads to another and a partnership begins to unravel...
