# A Calling for Charlie Barnes

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- Book: [A Calling for Charlie Barnes](https://www.bookquiver.com/joshua-ferris/a-calling-for-charlie-barnes) ([A Calling for Charlie Barnes.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joshua-ferris/a-calling-for-charlie-barnes.md))
- Authors: [Joshua Ferris](https://www.bookquiver.com/joshua-ferris)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-295-3
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2022-03-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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. A striver, romantic, and thoroughgoing capitalist, he's blindsided by the Great Recession and a dose of bad news. Rethinking his entire life, he starts to wonder: 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?