A Calling for Charlie Barnes
Author: Ferris, Joshua
ISBN: 9780241202869
Publisher: Viking
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 241mm x 161mm x 32mm
Format: Hardback
Description
From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a poignant novel about fathers, sons and the embers of the American dream
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?
ISBN: 9780241202869
Publisher: Viking
Year First Published: 2021
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 241mm x 161mm x 32mm
Format: Hardback
Description
From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a poignant novel about fathers, sons and the embers of the American dream
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?
