"Back to the Future" meets Travels With Charley, collides with Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice, and then drinks a beer with Max Goldman from "Grumpy Old Men"... all of it happening simultaneously and serially.
When grumpy 75 year old Charlie Messina wakes from a coma after a cardiac event on Cape Cod, he is told that he was only unconscious for a few days. However, Charlie knows he has spent the last several months living through a parallel life that lies ahead of him. Which includes a personal tragedy, an unlikely awkward friendship with two local boys, and a road trip with his playboy best friend from college and a dog that no else sees (except the children). When he shares his story about the life he lived, his wife and grown sons think he's crazy. He then realizes he must play along with his family--and the geriatric psychiatrist--or they'll be convinced he's suffering dementia and will put him into a home for "dribblers and droolers."
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New Paltz, NY
United States
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US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Height: 191 mm
Width: 114 mm
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978-1-949933-23-9 (9781949933239)
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Steven Lewis is a current member of the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute faculty, former longtime Mentor at SUNY-Empire State College, and itinerant freelancer. His work has been published widely, from the notable to the beyond obscure, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, LA Times, Ploughshares, Narratively, Spirituality & Health, The Rosicrucian Digest, Road Apple Review and a biblically long list of parenting publications (7 kids, 16 grandkids). He is also a Contributing Writer at Talking Writing and Literary Ombudsman for 650: Where Writers Read. His books include Zen and the Art of Fatherhood, The ABCs of Real Family Values, Fear and Loathing of Boca Raton, a novel, Take This, a recent chapbook of poems, If I Die Before You Wake, and a generational sequel to Take This, titled Loving Violet.
