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A Calling for Charlie Barnes

English · Paperback / Softback

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Charlie Barnes, sixty-eight years old, reasonable man, small-business owner is facing the abyss and it's time to reckon with how he has lived his life so far. What happened to all those great ideas that were snatched from the jaws of success? And what was with all those unsuccessful marriages? Well, who's counting the wives when Barbara, his fifth and most permanent wife, is such a rock solid pillar of society?

Maybe Jake Barnes, son of Charlie and writer of his story is counting. Now that his father seems to be on the way out, Jake begins to wonder what Charlie Barnes's desperate dreams of success have really added up to. If his father's life was a series of fantasies, then how is it possible for his son to tell the truth about him? And will Jake have to confront the fact that in their ambitions, and their delusions, they might not actually be so very different?

Joshua Ferris's new novel is both a profoundly tender and brutally funny portrayal of a life lost in the American dream.

About the author










Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois in 1974. He is the author of four novels and one collection of short stories. His debut, Then We Came to the End, won the PEN/Hemingway award and was shortlisted for the National Book Award and his most recent novel, To Rise Again at A Decent Hour, was nominated for the Booker Prize and won the Dylan Thomas Prize. He lives in upstate New York.

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A hilarious skewering of the American Dream by the man who must be the funniest writer we have
Sathnam Sanghera Guardian, Best Books of 2021

Product details

Authors Joshua Ferris
Publisher Viking
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.09.2021
 
EAN 9780241202876
ISBN 978-0-241-20287-6
No. of pages 352
Dimensions 153 mm x 234 mm x 40 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

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

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