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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