The Resource A calling for Charlie Barnes : a novel, Joshua Ferris
A calling for Charlie Barnes : a novel, Joshua Ferris
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This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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- 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. 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 342 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316333535
- Label
- A calling for Charlie Barnes : a novel
- Title
- A calling for Charlie Barnes
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Joshua Ferris
- Subject
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- Failure (Psychology)
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- Life -- Fiction
- trueLife change events
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Recessions -- United States -- Fiction
- Selflessness (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueStorytelling
- trueSwindlers and swindling
- trueAuthors
- Authors -- Fiction
- Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction
- Divorced men -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- trueDysfunctional families
- trueFailure
- Families -- United States -- Fiction
- trueFathers and sons
- Language
- eng
- 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. 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
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 11004271
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ferris, Joshua
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3606.E774
- LC item number
- C355 2021
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fathers and sons
- Families
- Life
- Selflessness (Psychology)
- Recessions
- Life change events
- Divorced men
- Cancer
- Authors
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A calling for Charlie Barnes : a novel, Joshua Ferris
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 342 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316333535
- Lccn
- 2020951727
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1230231629
- (OCoLC)1230231629
- Label
- A calling for Charlie Barnes : a novel, Joshua Ferris
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 342 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316333535
- Lccn
- 2020951727
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1230231629
- (OCoLC)1230231629
Subject
- Failure (Psychology)
- Fathers and sons -- Fiction
- Life -- Fiction
- trueLife change events
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Recessions -- United States -- Fiction
- Selflessness (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueStorytelling
- trueSwindlers and swindling
- trueAuthors
- Authors -- Fiction
- Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction
- Divorced men -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- trueDysfunctional families
- trueFailure
- Families -- United States -- Fiction
- trueFathers and sons
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Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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