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A Calling for Charlie Barnes de Joshua Ferris

A Calling for Charlie Barnes

Autor Joshua Ferris
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 2021
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241202876
ISBN-10: 0241202876
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Joshua Ferriswas 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.

Recenzii

Brilliant, funny, heartbreaking . . .Family, memory, ambition and death, all told with dervishing glee. Not just a daredevil of a novel, but something truly new
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

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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

'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