CHARLIE’S WORLD -1980: A Coming of Age (Middle Age) Novel For Men and Those Women Who Strive to Understand Them

CHARLIE ROBBINS, an affable everyman, is well liked by both men and women but has never been able to cross the finish line to success. He has drifted on a sea of mediocrity powered only by the fickle winds of fate. Then his life changes as he approaches middle age and he is afforded a serendipitous opportunity to assist his Assistant District Attorney best friend plan and entrap New York’s Public Enemy Number One and a corrupt District Attorney.

This accidental success skyrockets him to a degree of acclaim and fame that others have used as a stepping stone to reach new heights in business, celebrity, or any pursuit they made their goal. But is Charlie capable, motivated and driven enough to follow in their footsteps? Is it ever too late to grow up, to come of age?

And what of Charlie’s private life? In the midst of multiple partners he longs to find the one woman with whom he can share life with all the intimacies involved, raise a family, satisfy and be satisfied. But how can that happen when he questions what love is and whether he indeed loves his current number one partner, who definitely loves him. He questions how many women are too many. Clearly he needs understanding first but from whom, his psychiatrist or the wisest woman in his world?

Delve into the mind of a man and take advantage of this rare opportunity to study how it works…or doesn’t. Readers will find themselves rooting for Charlie, but will he make them proud or disappoint them?