A Calling For Charlie Barnes

Author : Joshua Ferris
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241972965
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Calling for Charlie Barnes written by Joshua Ferris and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Joshua Ferris
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316078174
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unnamed written by Joshua Ferris and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way to the everyday. Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Despite long hours at the office, he remains passionate about his work, and his partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm means that the work he does is important. And, even as his daughter Becka retreats behind her guitar, her dreadlocks and her puppy fat, he offers her every one of a father's honest lies about her being the most beautiful girl in the world. He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking. The Unnamed is a heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted -- and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.

Author : Joshua Ferris
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316333514
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Calling for Charlie Barnes written by Joshua Ferris and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Joshua Ferris
Publisher : JC Lattès
ISBN 13 : 2709669234
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Un appel pour Charlie Barnes written by Joshua Ferris and published by JC Lattès. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trop souvent divorcé, mécontent des compromis de la vie et habitant une maison qu’il exècre, Charlie Barnes doit bien l’admettre, depuis quelque temps, tout part à vau-l’eau. Et lorsque la Grande Récession et un cancer pointent conjointement leur nez, son rêve américain s’amenuise plus encore, et se réduit rapidement comme peau de chagrin. Puis, pour une fois, et contre toute attente, quelque chose se déroule comme prévu. Avec l’aide de son fils, Charlie passe en revue son existence et trouve sa véritable vocation là où il s’y attend le moins – dans le sacrifice, preuve d’altruisme et d’amour –, devenant enfin l’homme que ses enfants ont toujours su qu’il pouvait être. Traduit de l'anglais (américain) par Jean Esch

Author : Pat Mestern
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770703519
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Granite written by Pat Mestern and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lish MacPherson believes she is running from something - a job working for a corrupt firm that bilks seniors out of their estates. But she doesn’t realize that her arrival in the small town of Seven Springs may be a matter of destiny. Lish discovers that a new acquaintance - Noah - shares with her not only a common ancestry but also a common recurring dream about riding a stag to some unknown destination. Their dream is echoed by a legend that haunts the town and is retold to all comers by Lish’s new employer, Thalia Russo. With developers trying to take over land in Seven Springs, and Lish and Noah fighting to protect Thalia and her home, could it be more than a coincidence that the three were brought together at this critical time? Perhaps that is why all three can hear the distant yowling of a cat during the night.

Author : Joshua Ferris
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141917628
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Then We Came to the End written by Joshua Ferris and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HILARIOUS SATIRE THAT SHOWS OFFICE DYNAMICS AT THEIR MOST PETTY AND PROFOUND FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR, JOSHUA FERRIS They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. There's Chris, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them. Then We Came to the End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life and mine. *Joshua Ferris' mind-blowing new book, A Calling for Charlie Barnes, is available to pre-order now.* 'Very funny, intense and exhilarating . . . For the first time in fiction, it has truly captured the way we work' The Times 'As dazzling as Franzen's The Corrections and as confident as Tartt's The Secret History . . . Exceptional, very funny' Daily Telegraph 'Slick, sophisticated and very funny, Ferris's cracking debut has modern Everyman fighting for his identity in an increasingly impersonal world' Daily Mail

Author : Philip Curtiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mummers in Mufti written by Philip Curtiss and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Author : John D. Randall
Publisher : John F. Blair, Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hatterask Incident written by John D. Randall and published by John F. Blair, Publisher. This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: