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Joshua Ferris' debut novel Then We Came to the End was both heralded by critics and a New York Times best seller, and it marked the arrival of a startlingly talented young writer. With The Unnamed, Ferris imagines the collision between one man's free will and the forces of nature that are bigger than any of us.
Tim Farnsworth walks. He walks out of meetings and out of bed. He walks in sweltering heat and numbing cold. He will walk without stopping until he falls asleep, wherever he is. This curious affliction has baffled medical experts around the globe-and comes perilously close to ruining what should be a happy life. Tim has a loving family, a successful law career, and a beautiful suburban home, all of which he maintains spectacularly well until his feet start moving again.
What drives a man to stay in a marriage? In a job? What forces him away? Is love or conscience enough to overcome the darker, stronger urges of the natural world? The Unnamed is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human understanding.
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An important and individual work, a stage in the development of a significant talent (Daily Telegraph)
He has teased ordinary circumstances into something extraordinary, which is exactly what we want our fiction writers to do (Economist)
What an imagination - and what a memorable conceit ... This engaging and original novel confirms Ferris as a writer who, like his hero, is being taken - half voluntarily - on an unpredictable journey (Literary Review)
Ferris writes hauntingly on the fragility of our minds and on the compulsions that drive us, despite our best intentions (Vogue)
As a metaphor for any sort of addiction - particularly its impact on those around you - this is remarkable (GQ)
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He has teased ordinary circumstances into something extraordinary, which is exactly what we want our fiction writers to do (Economist)
What an imagination - and what a memorable conceit ... This engaging and original novel confirms Ferris as a writer who, like his hero, is being taken - half voluntarily - on an unpredictable journey (Literary Review)
Ferris writes hauntingly on the fragility of our minds and on the compulsions that drive us, despite our best intentions (Vogue)
As a metaphor for any sort of addiction - particularly its impact on those around you - this is remarkable (GQ)
Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois in 1974. His first novel, Then We Came to the End, was published to widespread acclaim in 2007 and was nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. He lives in New York.
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- PublisherBlackstone Pub
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1607883368
- ISBN 13 9781607883364
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