A calling for Charlie Barnes

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen

Verfasser:
Ferris, Joshua

Verfasser Angabe:
Joshua Ferris

Sprache:
Englisch

• USA
• Familie
• Belletristische Darstellung
• Mann
• Mittleres Lebensalter

Verlag:
Viking

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2021

Umfang:
342 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-241-20286-9

Interessenskreise:
American Literature
American Shelves

Inhalt:
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?