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Charlie

A Novel

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Charlie

By: Grant Gage, GWA Books
Narrated by: Steve Stewart's voice replica
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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.

©2025 Grant Gage (P)2025 Grant Gage
Absurdist Genre Fiction Psychological World Literature
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