{"product_id":"9780241972953","title":"A Calling for Charlie Barnes","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharlie 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.\n\nHe certainly seems simple enough: he's a striver, a romantic, and a thoroughgoing capitalist. But suddenly blindsided by the Great Recession and a dose of bad news, he might have to rethink his life from top to bottom, and on short notice. 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Joshua+Ferris\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eJoshua Ferris\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Joshua Ferris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380040614051,"sku":"9780241972953","price":245.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780241972953_4fa08880-0b84-48a0-ab38-f5444444b0e9.jpg?v=1776469005","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9780241972953","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}