"A touching, bittersweet remembrance of a workaday career in acting ... He writes with self-punishing honesty ... documents a career longevity that is breathtaking. ... His story is more about self-acceptance than glory, and readers will cheer as he reaches that realization himself."

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"North of Hollywood should be required reading for anyone who aspires to the acting life in New York and the City of Angels. Enchantingly written with a sure hand and a knowing eye, Rick Lenz reveals with enormous poignancy and gleeful insight what it has taken to make one real life work while pursuing the Hollywood dream."

ELIZABETH FORSYTHE HAILEY,
AUTHOR OF A WOMAN OF INDEPENDENT MEANS

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