The Unnamed - Hardcover

Ferris, Joshua

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316034010 ISBN 13: 9780316034012

Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books, 2010

Synopsis

He was going to lose the house and everything in it.
The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would

lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way to the everyday.
Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Despite long hours at the office, he remains passionate about his work, and his partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm means that the work he does is important. And, even as his daughter Becka retreats behind her guitar, her dreadlocks and her puppy fat, he offers her every one of a father's honest lies about her being the most beautiful girl in the world.

He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking.

THE UNNAMED is a dazzling novel about a marriage and a family and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. It is the heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.

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Review:

The first great book of the decade (GQ)

A stunner, an unnerving portrait of a man stripped of civilization's defences (New Yorker)

A writer almost uniquely in tune with modern life . . . Ferris's flashes of brilliance are many (Evening Standard)

Original, affecting. An almost unbearable love story, between remissions of intense connection and the human inevitability of parting, between the haven of marriage and all that lies beyond (Observer)

At once riveting, horrifying and deeply sad. Fiction with the force of an avalanche, snowballing unstoppably (San Francisco Chronicle)

Hugely readable, engaging, original. What an imagination - and what a memorable conceit (Literary Review)

As hard to pin down as its hero, yet as readable as The Corrections (Guardian)

Immensely readable, a grand American novel (New Statesman)

Seizes readers by the lapels with a story that feels serious and mysterious ... He has teased ordinary circumstances into something extraordinary, which is exactly what we want our fiction writers to do (Economist)

Ferris writes hauntingly on the fragility of our minds and on the compulsions that drive us, despite our best intentions (Vogue)

About the Author:

Joshua Ferris's first novel, Then We Came to the End, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and was a National Book Award finalist. It has been translated into 24 languages. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, Prairie Schooner, and The Iowa Review. He lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0316034010
• ISBN 13: 9780316034012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 313