Placeholder text

Go to cart

Ferris, J: CALLING FOR CHARLIE BARNES

By Joshua Ferris

Ferris, J: CALLING FOR CHARLIE BARNES Personalities

Ferris, J: CALLING FOR CHARLIE BARNES

0 - Used - good
Description
Named a best book of the year by NPR, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review, the hilarious and profound new novel from National Book Award finalist Joshua Ferris is “a fine American novel about family, love, and a decent but flawed man trying to be better" (Stephen King).  Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles, his dreams dwindle further, and an infinite past full of forking paths quickly tapers to a black dot. Then, against all odds, something goes right for a change: Charlie is granted a second act. With help from his storyteller son, he surveys the facts of his life and finds his true calling where he least expects it—in a sacrifice that redounds with selflessness and love—at last becoming the man his son always knew he could be. A Calling for Charlie Barnes is a profound and tender portrait of a man whose desperate need to be loved is his downfall, and a brutally funny account of how that love is ultimately earned. “A masterpiece that shines a revealing light on both family and fiction itself.” —Michael Schaub, NPR
Product details
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2021-09-28
Publication Date:
2021-09-28
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0316333530
ISBN13:
9780316333535
Weight:
590 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
36 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out