Don't Try This at Home

by PaulReizin (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  For Charlie, it probably all started at school with Simon Lowenstein. When the register was called at school, Simon Lowenstein wouldn't answer to his own name, so Charlie would answer for him. Ever since then, Charlie has, occasionally, answered for other people. So, when a beautiful woman he's never met before approaches him with her hand outstretched, asking him if he's Matthew, he can't help but say yes. And, after all, who wouldn't? But this simple deception and a small work-related incident - an ageing gangster died in the filming of a practical joke for the TV show Charlie works on - both conspire to make Charlie realise that being himself might not be so bad. That is if he ever gets the chance again...

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $5.29

  If she thinks you're someone else, why disappoint her? So when a beautiful woman who Charlie's never met before approaches him in a bar and asks if he's Matthew, he can't help saying yes. After all, Charlie has based a career on this sort of simple deceit. But this and a small work-related incident -- the death of an ageing gangster during the filming of the TV show Charlie that produces -- both conspire to make Charlie realise that being himself might not be such a bad idea. That is, if he ever gets the chance again...