"I collapsed in this same club four years ago and was resuscitated by a smackhead, who pulled me into the toilets, ran my wrists under the cold tap, and slapped me 'round the face -- at the same time giving me the A to Z of self-medication. I've performed the same service for others since. It makes me sad when people say that my generation has learned nothing worth passing on."
Charlie Marshall is not a man who should be getting married. When Charlie, a twenty-five-year-old magazine writer, returns home to London after his New York bachelor party, his arm is broken -- the result of being thrown out of a bar after lighting his boss's hair on fire -- and he is nursing the effects of a near fatal overdose. He arrives wasted at his own wedding, where the sight of his fiancée, Sarah, in a big white dress, mixed with the expectations of two large families, prove to be the final toxic cocktail for a man who has been wide awake for five days. He crumbles to the floor at the altar. 
 In the aftermath of his abject failure, Charlie is buried by the harsh realities of his parents' deteriorating marriage, his feckless, hedonistic friends, and his massive desire to drink. When Sarah goes on what was to be their honeymoon with one of his best friends, Charlie's downward spiral is complete, and there is only one thing he can do. He checks himself into rehab and begins an affair with a suicidal self-mutilator. But instead of love, Charlie finds only memories of Sarah. He becomes desperate to earn back his life with her. No longer numbed by various substances and battling the absurdity of his hospital group sessions, Charlie decides he's got to make some changes on his own, and his biggest hope is that Sarah will take notice. 
Charlie Big Potatoes is at once entertaining and illuminating, hilariously dark, and undeniably hopeful.

Charlie Big Potatoes

Phil, Robinson

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Male fiction in a new guise - cool yet sensitive, funny but serious, moving and unforgettable. Remember Phil Robinson, he's the writer FHM readers have been waiting for . . . Charlie Marshall is not a man who should be getting married. But it's too late. When he arrives wasted at his own wedding, the consequences of his drunken life land on him like a ton of falling wedding cake. He slips into unconsciousness as the ceremony begins leaving behind a distraught bride, her despairing nouveaux riche parents and 150 portions of uneaten salmon. Wracked with guilt, Charlie soon realizes that opting out of wedded bliss was a mistake of monster proportion and hits an all-time low when he's pulled - drunk, desperate and pleading - from his would-be-in-laws' ornamental duck pond. Rehab seems the only sensible solution but with drink and drugs denied him, Charlie rapidly has to face the fact that life isn't all rock 'n' roll: his parents' marriage is disintegrating, his job is on the skids and his friends appear to be wooing his ex. Can he gather his scattered wits, fake a quick recovery and get through rehab before his cheque bounces and his liver disintegrates? And more importantly can he grow up and get the girl without losing his cool? CHARLIE BIG POTATOES is a bittersweet delight, loaded with a vicious seam of dark humour that proves even if big boys don't cry, they can make life bloody difficult at times.

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Excerpt from Sinners and Saints: A Tour Across the States, and Round Them; With Three Months Among the Mormons People under a ban - What the Mormon men think of the Anti Polygamy Bill - And what the Mormon women say of poly gamy - Puzzling confidences - Practical plurality a very dull affair - But theoretically a hedge-hog problem - Matrimonial eccentricities - The fashionable milliner fatal to plurality Absurdity of comparing Moslem polygamy with Mormon plu rality - Are the women of Utah happy - Their enthusiasm for Women's Rights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Charlie Big Potatoes

Charlie Big Potatoes

Apple IIE Programming: A Step-By-Step Guide (Prentice-Hall Programming Series)

Sinners and Saints: A Tour Across the States, and Round Them; With Three Months Among the Mormons (Classic Reprint)

Charlie Big Potatoes

Charlie Big Potatoes

The Poets and Nature: Reptlies, Fishes, and Insects

The Poets and Nature: Reptlies, Fishes, and Insects

Sinners and Saints: A Tour Across the States, and Round Them; With Three Months Among the Mormons (Classic Reprint)