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Joshua Ferris
A Calling for Charlie Barnes

Joshua Ferris
A Calling for Charlie Barnes

2022 | Nakladatelství The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)

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 acquaintan…ces, 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? 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?

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Stav:	nová
Vazba:	brožovaná
Počet stran:	342
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	0241972957
ISBN:	9780241972953
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	23. 2. 2025 18:27
Číslo položky:	1144591

O autorovi

Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris vystudoval anglistiku a filozofii na University of Iowa. Literárně debutoval roku 1999 v periodiku Iowa Review povídkou Mrs. Blue. Románem Vstát znovu se slepicema se probojoval do užší nominace na prestižní Bookerovou cenu a získal Mezinárodní cenu Dylana Thomase.

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