A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman) Audiobook 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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A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman) Audiobook Narrator
Nick Offerman is the narrator of A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman) audiobook that was written by Joshua Ferris
About the Author(s) of A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman)
Joshua Ferris is the author of A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman)
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A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman) Full Details
Narrator | Nick Offerman |
Length | 11 hours 30 minutes |
Author | Joshua Ferris |
Publisher | Hachette Audio |
Release date | September 28, 2021 |
ISBN | 9781478928911 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman) is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Family Life
Additional info
The publisher of the A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman) is Hachette Audio. The imprint is Little, Brown & Company. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781478928911.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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