A Calling for Charlie Barnes
Autor Joshua Ferrisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2022
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
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0241972957
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Recenzii
Funny, moving, and formally a work of genius,A Calling for Charlie Barnesis quite literally the book Joshua Ferris was born to write.
Dazzling. Mind-blowing. About as much fun as you can have without risking arrest
Adeeply funny, very moving book. . . Ferris's hijinks are serious; his play is profound.There is magic in these pages
A Calling for Charlie Barnesiswonderful:fast and deep, urgent and brilliant. . .A hilarious, intimate, and scathing takedown of so many American vanities
Ferris's workcuts to the heart of who we areby focusing very painfully on who one man was . . . Consider this booknot just a work of grief or love or memoir, then, but a work of hope, too.
Joshua Ferris has proved hisastonishing ability to spin gold from ordinary air. . . Asbrave and adeptas any writer out there
Not too many authors have written the Great American Office Novel...Then We Came to the Endfeels likea readymade classic of the genre. . . .A truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness
Dismayingly funny in the way that only really serious books can be
Brilliant, funny, stomach-turningly accurate
Very funny, intense and exhilarating
Descriere
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?
___________________________________
'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