Evoking such classics as Elmer Gantry and The Day of the Locust, William Giraldi's About Face transfers the perennial literary themes of fame, ambition, and obsession to twenty-first-century Boston. Val Face, a guru self-styled on the author of The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran, mesmerizes millions with his sovereign ability to heal besotted adherents with the charismatic power of his words, the touch of his hands, and the transcendent beauty of his face...