A Calling for Charlie Barnes

From the Booker-shortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a novel about fathers, sons, thwarted dreams and confronting the reality of who we really arebr>br>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.br>br>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?br>___________________________________br>br>''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 Firebr>br>''Dazzling. Mind-blowing. About as much fun as you can have without risking arrest'' Richard Russo, author of Empire Fallsbr>br>''Wonderful: fast and deep, urgent and brilliant . . . A hilarious, intimate, and scathing takedown of so many American vanities'' Dana Spiotta, author of Stone Arabia>

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Ferris
• Publisher: Viking
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780241202869
• ISBN: 978-0-241-20286-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; USA, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Humorous / General, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Family & relationships, Intergenerational Relationships, United States of America, USA, Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues