The Understudy Author:Elia Kazan The story- Elia Kazan's most personal, passionate, and moving work- swirls through a wealth of environments: the Broadway stage, a mind-blown safari in East Africa, a Hollywood film studio, the garment industry, a Beverly Hills luxury hotel, a closing-night cast party in Boston, a New York's underworld, the TV industry, Florida's new gold coast.... more » Kazan enhanced the meaning of "arrangement to encompass the seual accomodations most people live by and lie about. The true love story of this book is one that will give the word "understudy" a new meaning. Because so many of the characters are out of the world of theater and film, some people may be tempted to wonder who they might be based on.« less