EPISODE · Sep 28, 2021 · 3 MIN
A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman) by Joshua Ferris
from Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Drama · host Malachi Bosco
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman) Author: Joshua Ferris Narrator: Nick Offerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a National Book Award Finalist comes a novel about an American family and one man's attempt to understand the many lives of his father. 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman) Author: Joshua Ferris Narrator: Nick Offerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From a National Book Award Finalist comes a novel about an American family and one man's attempt to understand the many lives of his father. 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.
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