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.
"The Unnamed is ambitious, intelligent, and even more complex than
Ferris's debut novel, Then We Came to the End."-- Christian Science
Monitor
"[Ferris is] a brilliant and funny observer."-- The New York
Times
"An unnerving portrait of a man stripped of civilization's
defenses. Ferris's prose is brash, extravagant, and, near the end,
chillingly beautiful."-- The New Yorker
"Arresting, ground-shifting, beautiful and tragic. This is the book
a new generation of writers will answer to. No one in America
writes like this."--Gary Shteyngart, author of ABSURDISTAN and THE
RUSSIAN DEBUTANTE'S HANDBOOK
"Astonishing and compelling."-- Very Short List
"At once riveting, horrifying and deeply sad, The Unnamed, like
Tim's feet, moves with a propulsion all its own. This is fiction
with the force of an avalanche, snowballing unstoppable until it
finally comes to rest-when we come to the end, so to speak."-- The
San Francisco Chronicle
"Audacious, risky and powerfully bleak, with the author's
unflinching artistry its saving grace."-- Kirkus Reviews
"Bracingly original . . . Surprisingly, almost tenderly, and
despite his unrelenting refusal to churn out a predictable happy
ending, [Ferris] turns The Unnamed into a most unorthodox love
story about commitment and sacrifice."--The Miami Herald
"Fabulous....with the sort of exuberance and energy that marked Jay
McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City."--Chicago Tribune
"Ferris imbues his story with a sense of foreboding, both for the
physical world, in the grip of record-breaking temperatures, and
for the vulnerable nuclear family and its slow unraveling. With its
devastating metaphoric take on the yearning for connection and the
struggles of commitment, Ferris brilliantly channels the suburban
angst of Yates and Cheever for the new millennium."--Booklist,
starred review
"Ferris puts his notable wit and observational ability aside in
favor of a far more psychological (and ultimately physical)
examination of the self. . . . an accomplished and daring work by a
writer just now realizing what he is capable of creating."-- The
Los Angeles Times
"Ferris shows a talent for the grotesque in his riveting
descriptions of Tim's decline. He also includes his specialty -
scenes of juicy office intrigue. But what's most engrossing in his
portrait of a couple locked in an extreme version of a familiar
conflict - the desire to stay together versus an inexplicable
yearning to walk away."-- O Magazine
"Ferris' distinctive writing style is serious but whimsical,
philosophical with a touch of the absurd."--St. Petersburg
Times
"Heartfelt and delivered in solemn deadpan. It may even be, in its
own modest way, a great American novel. "--Los Angeles Times
"Mr. Ferris is wise enough not to teach a lesson. Rather, he has
teased ordinary circumstances into something extraordinary, which
is exactly what we want our fiction writers to do."-- The
Economist
"Rich and profound."-- Time
"Riveting."-- The Wall Street Journal
"Strange and beguiling . . . With this brave and masterful novel,
Ferris has proven himself a writer of the first order. The Unnamed
poses a question that could not be more relevant to the America of
2010: Will the compulsions of our bodies defeat the contents of our
souls?"-- The Boston Globe
"There is beauty in Ferris' writing, even when charged with
despair."--The Chicago Sun-Times
"Unfold[s] in a hushed, shadowed dimension located somewhere
between myth and a David Mamet play."-- Salon
"Where Then We Came to the End mined the minutiae of cubicle life
for humor and pathos, this one goes straight for the heart(and the
jugular), telling the story of a married father struggling with an
inexplicable disease, and thelengths to which he'll go to maintain
control of his life."-- GQ
"You can't break away from the grip of these opening chapters . . .
Ferris usually writes in a steady, cool voice whether delivering
the quotidian details of office work or existential observations
about God that would otherwise sound grandiose. The effect is a
terrifying portrayal of intermittent mental illness, the way the
fear of relapse becomes a kind of specter, mocking each recovery
and shredding any hope of a cure."-- The Washington Post
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