Description
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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Author: Ferris Joshua
Publication date: March 10, 2022
Manufacturer: The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Contemporary fiction in english, Fiction in english, English novels
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 342
ISBN/EAN: 9780241972953