No-Count Charlie
by Willie Gaffer.
6 X 9 Case bound, 240 pages.
Published by Wesoomi Publishing®.

No-Count Charlie is the ultimate dysfunctional man within a profoundly dysfunctional family. The deck is stacked against him from the beginning. Victimized and bullied by his brute like father, Charlie grows up confused and disoriented. His normal reaction to the stresses of life is to run away from them. His mother, in an attempt to compensate with mother love, overdoes it and lures him into a mother fixation which further defeats his coming of age. Charlie becomes the personification of Oedipus. Even a lovely and loving childhood sweetheart cannot draw him out of his convoluted fantasies.
His life is further confounded when he discovers that his mother love is stricken with terminal cancer. His is the dilemma of having to care for the love of his life as she degenerates before his eyes. It is the battle of his conscience with its desire to be and do good against his complexes and weaker human instincts. This is the classic struggle of a man's effort to cope in a world which he did not create and truly does not understand.

Here is what Midwest Book Review has to say about No-Count-Charlie:

Set on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, Willie Gaffer's No-Count-Charlie is the compelling novel of a man who grows up in a dysfunctional family, with a bullying father and an overcompensating mother who brings about an Oedipal fixation in the protagonist. When his mother falls ill with terminal cancer, the stress of caring for her weighs heavily upon him, especially since his natural inclination when confronted by strife is to run and hide. No-Count-Charlie is an exceptionally well presented tale about the warps of a disjointed human spirit, and the tumultuous journey that brings one to the coming of age. A most fascinating human drama, No-Count-Charlie is highly recommended and rewarding reading.

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When we first read this review on the Bookviews website by Alan Caruba we were a bit dismayed. After some thought, however, we realized that it is a good review. It is clear that the book had a telling impact on Mr. Caruba. We could only wonder as to the reason for that. We hope you will wonder too.

Another boutique publisher, Wesoomi Publishing (PO Box 656, Ortonville, MI 48462) is offering No-Count-Charlie by Willie Gaffer ($24.95). This is not a pleasant story. It is about a dysfunctional family and a dysfunctional son who dotes on his mother who, in turn, is dying from cancer. The deck is stacked against the main character and, frankly, this is a painful book to read.

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