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The Unnamed is a book about a man afflicted with a debilitating condition — a compulsive need to walk until he collapses from exhaustion. Author Joshua Ferris, who also wrote Then We Came To The. A CALLING FOR CHARLIE BARNES By Joshua Ferris. Joshua Ferris's literary career commenced in a way many writers might envy. His first novel, "Then We Came to the End," an assured satire of. Ferris paints another scathing portrait of corporate America (via Tim's reprehensible law firm), but what deepens "The Unnamed" and makes it so devastating is the heartbreaking chronicle of the.
A new novel from the author of Then We Came to the End. Is it a physical ailment, or a psychosis? This is just one of the many questions that readers - like the Farnsworths themselves - will grapple with as they read The Unnamed, Joshua Ferris's devastating second novel. The novel begins with him having a recurrence after several years of freedom from his unnamed condition. Jane, his wife, loyally prepares for another spell of retrieving his prone body from vacant. Joshua Ferris’s The Unnamed is a purposeless, relentlessly depressing book. I get the sense Ferris was chugging balls-out on the downer path because he didn’t want to minimize the darkness, but I think he lost his way when he chose to focus nearly exclusively on the worst moments of strained marriages and mental illness.
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