A Calling for Charlie Barnes
Author(s): Joshua Ferris
From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a poignant novel about fathers, sons and the embers of the American dreamCharlie Barnes is a mid-century man devoted to his newspaper and his landline. But Charlie is about to get dragged into our troubled age by his storyteller son, who has a different idea of him than he has of himself. Then there are his other children, his ex-wives, present wife, business clients, friends and acquaintances, all of whom have their competing opinions of Charlie.A striver, romantic, and thoroughgoing capitalist, he's blindsided by the Great Recession and a dose of bad news. Rethinking his entire life, he starts to wonder- what makes a man real? What makes him good? And how does the story we tell about ourselves line up with the lives that we actually live?
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 245.0
- : 01 July 2022
- : 2.1 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Joshua Ferris
- : Paperback
- : 2206
- : English
- : 813/.6
- : 352
- : FA