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Charlies Barnes... is a mid-century man devoted to his newspaper and his landline. But he is about to get dragged into our troubled age by his storyteller son, who has a different opinion of Charlie than Charlie has of himself. Then there are Charlie's other children, his ex-wives, present wife, business clients, friends and acquaintances, all of whom have their competing opinions of him. He certainly seems simple enough: he's a striver, a romantic and a thoroughgoing capitalist. But suddenly blindsided by the Great Recession and s dose of bad news, he might have to rethink his life from top to bottom, and at short notice. What makes a man real? What makes him good? And how does the story we tell about ourselves line up with the life that we actually live?
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A Calling for Charlie Barnes, Joshua Ferris
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2021
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Joshua Ferris
- Editore
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
- Pubblicato
- 2021
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0241202876
- ISBN13
- 9780241202876
- Serie
- Valutazione
- 3,65 su 5
- Descrizione
- Charlies Barnes... is a mid-century man devoted to his newspaper and his landline. But he is about to get dragged into our troubled age by his storyteller son, who has a different opinion of Charlie than Charlie has of himself. Then there are Charlie's other children, his ex-wives, present wife, business clients, friends and acquaintances, all of whom have their competing opinions of him. He certainly seems simple enough: he's a striver, a romantic and a thoroughgoing capitalist. But suddenly blindsided by the Great Recession and s dose of bad news, he might have to rethink his life from top to bottom, and at short notice. What makes a man real? What makes him good? And how does the story we tell about ourselves line up with the life that we actually live?