**βA wild ride of a book . . . A story in which anything and everything can happen, and mostly does. This is a book of many trips--across oceans, back to the past, and, most profoundly, into the infinite deep space of the human heart. Brock Clarke has given us a wonderful novel that bursts with all
Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?
β Scribed by Brock Clarke
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 128 KB
- Edition
- 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1643750143
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β¦ Synopsis
"A wild ride of a book . . . A story in which anything and everything can happen, and mostly does. This is a book of many tripsβacross oceans, back to the past, and, most profoundly, into the infinite deep space of the human heart. Brock Clarke has given us a wonderful novel that bursts with all the meaty stuff of real life." βBen Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
With the comic unpredictability of a Wes Anderson movie and the inventive sharpness of a John Irving novel, author Brock Clarke introduces readers to an ordinary man who is about to embark on an absurdly extraordinary adventure.
After his mother, a theologian and bestselling author, dies in a fiery explosion, forty-nine-year-old Calvin Bledsoe's heretofore uninspired life is upended. A stranger shows up at the funeral, claiming to be Calvin's aunt Beatrice, and insists that Calvin accompany her on a trip to Europe, immediately.
As he and Beatrice...
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