THE UNNAMED

Ferris, Joshua

ISBN 10: 0316034010 / ISBN 13: 9780316034012

Published by Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Company, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2010

About this Item

Second novel by the author of the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning and National Book Award finalist, THEN WE CAME TO THE END. During their twenty-year marriage, Tim and Jane Farnsworth have savored the fruits of his labor as a high-powered lawyer: they live in a beautiful home, they take exotic vacations, they don't worry about money. Tim has twice battled a bizarre, inexplicable illness, but those episodes, while not exactly forgotten, have passed. Then the illness returns, causing him to behave in a frightening new way. Tim is driven out of his comfortable existence and into a life that he doesn't recognize, and that tests the constancy of Jane's love. How far will he go to fight his body's incomprehensible desires, and what will they both risk to find their way back to each other? At once a heartbreaking story of family and marriage, and a meditation on the unseen forces of nature and desirem, THE UNNAMED is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human connections. New, Advance Reading Copy, as issued in pictorial wraps, without dust jacket. L45. Seller Inventory # 19089

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE UNNAMED

Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Company, New York, N. Y., U.S.A.

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: ARC

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: Advance Reading Copy

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Synopsis:

The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both.

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 heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted -- and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.

About the Authors:

Joshua Ferris's first novel, Then We Came to the End, has been translated into 24 languages. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and Best American Voices. Ferris was chosen for the New Yorker's "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers in 2010. He lives in New York.

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.