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- So long, Charlie
So long Charlie
Author:
Edward Bach
63-year old Dix Blackman is cracking up. His children have abandoned him. His wife conducts Friday night séance sessions down at the local church. His body is showing signs of early decay. And now that retirement is just around the corner, he finds that he can't sleep, that he spends his days day-dreaming and doodling at his desk, that he even
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follows complete strangers around in their cars. And to make matters worse there is that little matter of what happened 40 years ago, those seven days of madness that he keeps reliving over and over again.
SaturnÂ's Rings
is the first of ten stories dealing with what it means to be human. From Â`DuckÂ' in the story
Pigeon Tales
, the rambunctious 8-year-old who shocks her sister by doing the unthinkable, to God, the basketball junkie in
So Long Charlie
who dodges questions about his responsibility in all things bad, to Sokie Dickerman in the story
Wacky
, the neurotic, henpecked husband who shoves his head in the oven hoping to keep his wife home at night, to Jay in the story
Dark Blue
, the neglectful father who saves his own skin rather than turn to help a drowning son, the people we meet in these stories run the gamut from psychotic to sane, from heroic to pathetic, the very qualities that make us what we are human.
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ISBN-13:
9780595264711
ISBN-10:
0595264719
Publication Date:
1/19/2003
Pages:
406
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