SOLVED. Fantasy sort of. Main character sees the ghost of Rudolph Valentino--his own career mirrors Valentino's... Spoilers ahead. [s]

[Ryan]

I think the version I read might have been called rudy, but it was not the original title. I read a paperback with, i think, a line drawing of valentino on the cover.

[Ryan]

title might have been "val"

[Kym]

Val by Michael Scott Curnes?

Detailed review on Amazon -

https://www.amazon.com/Val-Michael-Sc...

[Ayshe]

Val - I created the record on Goodreads.

[Ryan]

THANK YOU

This is it!

[Kris]

Thanks for adding the book to Goodreads, Ayshe.

Removed what sounds like a spoiler from the topic header ("and he dies of AIDS in the end, but is reincarnated maybe").

Spoilers are fine as they may help us solve a request. We leave them out of the topic header, add a spoiler alert to the header, and give everyone a warning (and a couple of blank lines, for example) before revealing a spoiler. Or use the Goodreads spoiler tag to hide the text, but this don't work on the mobile site/app.