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Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, ageing with the grace of a matine idol. He loves his work. He loves his family. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out on all of it. He cannot stop walking. And, as his body propels him relentlessly forward, deep into the unfamiliar outer reaches of the city, he begins to realise he is moving further and further from his old self, seemingly unable to turn back and retrieve what he has lost. In his extraordinary novel Joshua Ferris delineates with great tenderness and a rare and inimitable wit the devastating story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is torn away without explanation or warning.
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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)
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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)
Joshua Ferris received an MFA from UC Irvine. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, New Stories from the South, Best New American Voices, Prairie Schooner, GQ, and the New York Times. He lives in upstate New York.
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- PublisherISIS Large Print Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0753187124
- ISBN 13 9780753187128
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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