Joshua Ferris
A Calling for Charlie Barnes


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780241972953

Pocketutgåva från Penguin Books Ltd. Flera perspektiv på en man och hans livsval i en humoristisk skildring av familjerelationer.

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Penguin Books Ltd.
Omfång: 342 s. | Språk: Engelska

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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

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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