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    612-822-4611

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Charlie

Charlie

Gwa Books
Gage, Grant

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798286710270
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Charlie has spent years inside a prison that swears it is a theater. One moment he is shackled in a concrete cell; the next, spotlights flare and a director's voice orders him to dance. That director, Robert Cooper, is also the father who never met Charlie's eyes when he was a child, and whose approval still glints just out of reach.

Onstage beside Charlie stands Drew Fontaine, a flawless double who shares his face, his age, even his laugh-yet Drew glides through every routine while Charlie stumbles in the shadows. As rehearsals turn into rituals and the red request button on the wall falls silent, Charlie grasps a terrible truth: the role of star was never meant for him.

When a midnight escape leads to a shuttered shopping mall and a final confrontation, Charlie must choose between violence and surrender, destiny and delusion. Poetic yet unflinchingly direct, Charlie explores the price of yearning for a father's nod-and the fate that waits when the spotlight moves on. A modern Greek tragedy where freedom, fame, and forgiveness are all props on a stage that refuses to open its doors.

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