A Calling for Charlie Barnes
€13.25
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780241972953 |
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| Authors | Joshua Ferris |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.246 |
| Publishing Date | 10/03/2022 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €12.50 |
| Tax | €0.75 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €13.25 |
| Availability | 14 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
From the Booker-shortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a hilarious novel about fathers, sons, thwarted dreams and confronting the reality of who we really are
''This is a fine American novel about family, love, and a decent but flawed man trying to be better. In dark times like these, I can''t recommend this book too highly. It''s strong'' Stephen King on Twitter
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Charlie 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.
He certainly seems simple enough: he''s a striver, a romantic, and a thoroughgoing capitalist. But suddenly blindsided by the Great Recession and a dose of bad news, he might have to rethink his life from top to bottom, and on short notice. 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?
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''Funny, moving, and formally a work of genius, A Calling for Charlie Barnes is quite literally the book Joshua Ferris was born to write'' Garth Risk Hallberg, author of City on Fire
''Dazzling. Mind-blowing. About as much fun as you can have without risking arrest'' Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls
''Wonderful: fast and deep, urgent and brilliant . . . A hilarious, intimate, and scathing takedown of so many American vanities'' Dana Spiotta, author of Stone Arabia