{"product_id":"charlie-9798286710270","title":"Charlie","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gwa Books | Grant Gage\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Absurdist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlie 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnstage 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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, \u003ci\u003eCharlie\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46335489507479,"sku":"9798286710270","price":1174.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798286710270.webp?v=1768675067","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/charlie-9798286710270","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}