A calling for Charlie Barnes, Joshua Ferris
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A calling for Charlie Barnes, Joshua Ferris
Language
eng
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fiction
Main title
A calling for Charlie Barnes
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Oclc number
1267655709
Responsibility statement
Joshua Ferris
Summary
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
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adult
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- Recessions -- Fiction
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- Audiobooks
- Families -- Fiction
- Authors -- Fiction
- FICTION / Family Life / Siblings
- FICTION / Biographical
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Cancer + Patients -- Fiction
- Selflessness (Psychology) -- Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Divorced men -- Fiction
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- Subject14
- Recessions -- Fiction
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- Audiobooks
- Families -- Fiction
- Authors -- Fiction
- FICTION / Family Life / Siblings
- FICTION / Biographical
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Cancer + Patients -- Fiction
- Selflessness (Psychology) -- Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Divorced men -- Fiction
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- Author1
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