The Unnamed

By Joshua Ferris
(Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books, Paperback, 9780316034005, 320pp.)

Publication Date: September 2010

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Paperback, Compact Disc, Hardcover, Compact Disc

Categories: Literary

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the January 2010 Indie Next List

“Tim Farnsworth, a respected litigation attorney for a high-powered Manhattan law firm, is seized by a bizarre illness: He cannot stop walking. Whether taken as a form of mental or physical illness or read as an allegorical tale, The Unnamed is an absolutely heartbreaking story of love, marriage, family, and what it means to be successful in today's society.”

-- Joni Montover, Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard, South Padre Island, TX

Description

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 come 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.

About the Author

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. He lives in New York.

Tracking A Man's Life, In Endless Footsteps

Monday, Feb 15, 2010

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 End, says he wanted to examine the nature of illness. More at NPR.org

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