I loved the narrator voice here. It’s a picaresque farce of a novel, drawing a lot on Shakespeare’s comedies. Very enjoyable read, although in the end maybe more like a delicious trifle. Possibly there is a deeper literary subtext going on, but you’d really have to be in the weeds. The Hollywood scenes are especially enjoyable– the Forest of Arden. Lots of melancholy, too. Life can be sweet, but its ending … ah!