I wrote this book because I wanted to make a difference and help Head & Neck Cancer patients in the only way I knew how. By using this book as a vehicle to raise funds for the two cancer groups that I support: – Shout At Cancer and Second Chance Head & Neck Cancer Support Group.

The book is mainly about my life and early musical career growing up in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 60s, which makes up the first half of the book. I have been honest and tried to write the best story that will resonate with musicians and music lovers all over the world. The book is about my life story, so I don’t want to spoil it by telling you everything here, what would be the point of buying the book?

The band that I was in was called Cartoone, and we made an album with Jimmy Page in 1968 while he was in the middle of recording Led Zeppelin 1, also Cartoone toured USA with Led Zeppelin in 1969, and there is a lot about that in the book. But there is more to the story than that. There is the band being discovered by Lulu, and me becoming great friends with Maurice Gibb (BeeGees) and, I hope, other very interesting music stories. So there is lots to read and enjoy in this book.

The second half of my book is about my long struggle with Cancer, and everything that I went through to get to where I am now. It’s been very hard and painful, but I have managed to somehow survive. I hope my book will inspire people who like myself have gone through a similar experience.

Please can I ask everyone to buy this book and make it into a Best Seller, as I would love to give the two cancer groups a nice big cheque for Christmas, that would make everything worthwhile.

” Life is about the choices we make, people who make Good Choices benefit from those choices, and usually have a nice life. People who make Bad Choices usually pay the consequences, and struggle through life.” That’s what I have found in my 71 years on this earth.

Thank you everyone in advance for buying my book.

Charlie Coffils

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A 1940s Bronx tenement kid survives a childhood of dyslexic confusion and cruel, alcoholic abuse to test his crazy wit and talent in Will Eisner’s art bullpen.

Survival of Species is a raw, authentic, deeply affecting memoir of survival and risky adventure set in that bustling marketplace of the South Bronx, where train lines and waterways converge at Hunts Point — the destination for fresh foods and waves of greenhorn immigrants in mid 20th Century New York.

It’s hard not to fall in love with Solly, a scrawny little kid who throws himself into games and encounters with danger on the streets, while at school and at home he stubbornly survives crushing dyslexic ridicule, and the seething bigotry and irrational violence of alcoholic abuse.

Revealed through the patchwork of their lives, his mom, Molly, loves her children strong, and works to keep them together through the hard times. She teaches Solly how to laugh at life’s cruelty, and hide your devastation inside. But even she doesn’t know the intense torment and fear he endures as the chosen victim of his Nazi-sympathizing stepfather — nor does his closest sibling, Millie, though she too is subject to Harold’s tyranny. His oldest brothers, who might have saved him, are off fighting their own battles in WWII.

As he struggles to believe in himself, Solly creates his own rules to understand the outside world, and begins to grapple with bigger questions that shape his life, reflecting Molly’s confounding choices. As her life repeats itself in her children, he grows up translating the world through his streetwise imagination, skewed humor, and the movies that become the frame of reference for his life. Inspired by Sid Caesar, the artists of Mad Comics, and his own fever of sexual experimentation, he evolves into an endearingly crazy mix of all three — realizing his humanity and creative talent at his first job in the adult world of Will Eisner’s art bullpen in Manhattan.

The story of author Sol Rothman’s life can make you laugh out loud one moment, and shock you with gut-wrenching brutality the next. So reader, be warned: Survival of Species is not written for the very young, the faint of heart, or the politically correct.

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