Who are you, Calvin Bledsoe? : a novel / by Brock Clarke.
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TextPublisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: 293 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781616208219
- 161620821X
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Main Library | Fiction | Clarke, Brock | Available | 33111009700515 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"This exuberant comic novel--involving explosions, secret agents, religious fanatics and a hapless narrator dragged around Europe by his long-lost aunt--is also a sly theological exploration of fate and predestination." -- The New York Times Book Review
Calvin Bledsoe has never grown up. His mother, an internationally known theologian, was the dominant force in his life--so much so that he never left home, even when he married. Now she is gone, and at her funeral, Calvin meets an aunt he never knew existed, who immediately takes charge of his life and whisks him off to Europe for a grand adventure.
As Calvin and his aunt traverse the continent, it becomes apparent that her clandestine behavior is leading him into danger. Facing a menagerie of antiquities thieves, secret agents, and religious fanatics, as well as an ex-wife who is stalking him, Calvin begins to suspect there might be some meaning behind the madness. Is he the person he thought he was? Is anyone ever who they appear to be? But there's little time for soul-searching, as Calvin first has to figure out why he has been kidnapped, why his aunt has disappeared, and who the hell burned down his house in Maine.
Powered by pitch-perfect dialogue, lovable characters, and surprising optimism, Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? is a modern-day take on Graham Greene's classic Travels with My Aunt, a novel about grabbing life, and holding on--wherever it may take you.-- Amazon.
Calvin Bledsoe's mother, a theologian and bestselling author, dies in a fiery explosion. Forty-nine-year-old Calvin's uninspired life is upended... and then a stranger shows up at the funeral, claiming to be his aunt Beatrice. She insists that Calvin accompany her on a trip to Europe, immediately. It quickly becomes apparent that his aunt's clandestine behavior is leading him into danger, involving antiquities thieves, secret agents, religious fanatics, and an ex-wife who is stalking him. Now Calvin has to figure out why he has been kidnapped, why his aunt disappeared, and who the hell burned down his house. -- adapted from jacket