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Archive for January 2, 2010

SUNNYSIDE by Glen David Gold

In the first chapter of Gold’s ebullient, complex, over-the-top Charlie Chaplin novel, Chaplin dies in a rowboat accident off the stormy, rocky northern California coast in 1916. At the same moment he also causes a riot in a small town in East Texas and is spotted engaging in various acts of mayhem around the country.

January 2, 2010  Tags: 1910s, Fame  Posted in: Literary, Real Event Fiction, Real People Fiction, Time Period Fiction, Top Picks, War  No Comments

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