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From National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris comes a “murderously funny” novel about a modern American family and one man’s attempt to come to understand the many lives of his father. (Janet Maslin, New York Times)
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.
The new book by the acclaimed author Joshua Ferris, narrated by the beloved actor Nick Offerman, 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.
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Ferris’s abundant skill has been evident since his debut novel, “Then We Came to the End,” was published in 2007, but here he has taken a huge leap forward, twisting semi-autobiographical material in such serpentine ways that even the author’s note is devious. This is a more tender novel than Ferris’s others, but that doesn’t keep it from being murderously funny from start to finish...Ferris's most daring experiment...Ferris’s prose remains taut and gorgeous, even when bleak. Also give him props for finding precisely the right way to meld memoir with satire, to do this with bracing originality and to keep heads spinning from this novel’s first page to its last. Gamesmanship and love don’t mix easily. But Ferris has found a way to do it, and he’s risen to the top of his game.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times Book Review
"Dazzling…There's no shortage of make-believe in A Calling for Charlie Barnes, Ferris' fifth, and best, book. A Calling for Charlie Barnes wears its metafictional heart on its sleeve, but as smart as it is, Ferris never shows any signs of falling in love with his own cleverness. Literary experiments without warmth tend to fall flat for most readers, but Ferris' novel is—remarkably, given its flawed subject—full of heart...In his previous works, Ferris has proved that he's one of the best American authors of comic fiction working today. His humor is on full display with A Calling for Charlie Barnes, but so are his intelligence and compassion; it's a masterpiece that shines a revealing light on both family and fiction itself.”—Michael Schaub, NPR
"Joshua Ferris is one of our best writers, and A Calling for Charlie Barnes is wonderful: fast and deep, urgent and brilliant. Ingeniously written, it had me up reading late into the night. A hilarious, intimate, and scathing takedown of so many American vanities."—Dana Spiotta, author of Wayward
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The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way to the everyday.
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Thought provoking, beautifully written, well read
- De P. Bergh en 01-27-10
De: Joshua Ferris
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The Rabbit Hutch
- A Novel
- De: Tess Gunty
- Narrado por: Tess Gunty, Scott Brick, Suzanne Toren, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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Set over one sweltering week in July and culminating in a bizarre act of violence that finally changes everything, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America, a gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and longing, entrapment and, ultimately, freedom.
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when will we stop romanticizing pedophilia
- De Kindle Customer en 08-18-22
De: Tess Gunty
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Light Perpetual
- A Novel
- De: Francis Spufford
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: The Woolworths on Bexford High Street in South London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages - after all, everything’s been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children.
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Outstanding... breathtaking
- De klstickel en 06-05-21
De: Francis Spufford
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Sea Wife
- A Novel
- De: Amity Gaige
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Will Damron, Emily Eiden
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two - Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their 44 foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being feral children at sea.
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The last fourth of the book rambled
- De William Brabec en 07-15-20
De: Amity Gaige
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No One Is Talking About This
- A Novel
- De: Patricia Lockwood
- Narrado por: Kristen Sieh
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void.
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Funny, moving, glad to have read it
- De Terra en 05-26-21
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Moonglow
- A Novel
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather". It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and desire and ordinary love, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact - and the creative power - of the keeping of secrets and the telling of lies.
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Wonderful novel, terrible narrator
- De Joyce M. Bernheim en 12-30-16
De: Michael Chabon
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My Year Abroad
- A Novel
- De: Chang-rae Lee
- Narrado por: Lawrence Kao
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong, and of himself.
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Worst narration ever
- De Unhappy Sirius Camper en 02-07-21
De: Chang-rae Lee
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Velvet Was the Night
- De: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Narrado por: Gisela Chípe
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the beautiful art student Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman—and journeying deeper into Leonora’s secret life of student radicals and dissidents.
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Amazing, entertaining, and insightful
- De Mogopolis en 09-07-21
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The Morning Star
- De: Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan, Edoardo Ballerini, Elisabeth Rodgers, y otros
- Duración: 23 h y 11 m
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It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar; the journalist Jostein is out on the town; and his wife, Turid, who is an assistant nurse, has a night shift. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is.
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Great read for religious scholars
- De matt m en 01-13-22
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Calling for Charlie Barnes
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- Mark
- 03-02-22
strong start but no real plot
This is a character driven novel, with Charlie Barnes being a very interesting character. He's a middle-aged ne'er-do-well, portrayed so well and with so much humor. This felt reminiscent of a John Irving novel. Nick Offerman was the perfect reader. This started so well, but suffered as the novel progressed. The constant back-and-forth in time grew confusing and irritating, plus a plot never emerged. The writing was great, but some kind of story was needed to keep my interest here. Also, the secondary characters played a bigger role in the second half, but they were a lot less interesting than Charlie Barnes.
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- Jon
- 03-08-22
Wow
This one really surprised me in a good way. Yes it takes some time to get into, and I suggest playing it at 1.35x speed but it turns into such a great story that reminds me of Big Fish (the movie). the end, while I did predict would happen the way it did brought a tear to my eye. such a great novel to cause reflection. As someone called it I believe correctly, a thinking person's novel.
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- Donita
- 03-19-22
Enjoying & surprising.
If you enjoyed “Life of Pi” you will like this book. The narration was excellent.
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- DQwannaB
- 02-23-22
Wonderful
Oh! The twists and turns! My heartstrings are stretched and twanging..
Loved the pitch perfect narration, too.
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- Peter
- 09-23-22
Enjoyed this inventive story!
I needed to listen carefully and there were times where I’d feel confused, but by the end of the book, I understood why I was confused. I really enjoyed this story. It’s a unique look back on a life and Nick Offerman was wonderful.
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- Judith Eigen
- 01-09-22
Smart, funny and wise
With so many new books coming out at the end of the year, A Calling for Charlie Barnes seems to have gotten a short shrift. Ferris writes about, among other things, families and their dysfunction, aging, the trajectory of a life, and the accuracy of memory. All of this is done with humor, compassion and wisdom.
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- Mary A. Kozy
- 06-21-22
A character study- a good one if you like them
I could tell the whole time I was listening that this was well written. The prose is rich, the structure of the novel builds well, Charlie Barnes is fully fleshed out as are all the supporting characters. But it is primarily a character study and they can be ponderous- rich detail about emotions surrounding events. A great deal of backstory to give meaning to a particular plot point. But I'm not a huge fan of character studies because they are ponderous. This book has won awards- so who am I to judge the worth of the book? But in the end I was glad I had finished it, not particularly glad I had listened to it.
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- Scott Garrioch
- 09-01-22
A uniquely meta-unreliable narrator....
Offerman is a great choice to read this as he inhabits the voice of Steady Boy while blending with our actual narrative perspective in Jake. Oddly, or perhaps even intentionally, Jake is the shell of a defined character and is more or less just "the writer" chewing away at the complexities of this strange man and family. We barely get to know him as a person and he's basically inhabiting his father for most of the book. I like the unexpected little twists and turns in the second half, but I often feel like Ferris is the diet version of Johnathan Franzen - who would have doubled the pages of this novel and given Karen 100 pages of her very own in a Corrections. Ferris is an amazing writer who can sing a sentence with the best of them, but I'd like to see a fully explored version of this.
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- Lowroad
- 09-20-22
What was this?
Strangely fascinating, yet boring at the same time. Captivated by the excellent writing and narration, I had to listen to the end. Once done, however, I cannot tell you why I finished it. Something is there, but I don't know what.
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- Teresa Keatts
- 03-23-22
Tricks of the mind
An entertaining story that also gives one pause on how easily our perception of others is often our own mind confusing truths with fiction.
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