Catch a Fallen Star

Catch a Fallen Star is the story of Layton Cross, a man who fails upward. It’s a private look at the fast-paced life of an actor who achieved stardom after marrying a superstar, but his career unraveled as she outshone him. His downward spiral touches all drugs, divorce, violence, megalomania. Cross’s career sinks from bad films to worse TV and an embarrassing stint in the theater--yet his fame and popularity continue to rise. We’re privy to all the sordid his public battles with both ex-wives; his clash with the head of a major studio; his best friend’s deceit; his daughter’s troubling secret. Grobel, whose in-depth interviews have appeared in Playboy, Movieline, Premiere, and Rolling Stone, is on familiar territory with this novel