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
___________________________________ 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? ___________________________________ '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
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