Publisher's Note: Celebrated author Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed was released last week, and to celebrate the occasion, here are two reviews of the novel.
Brian Prisco's Review
Have you ever been surprised by an artist? The one who immediately comes to mind is Danny Boyle. If you were to look over his canon of work, you'd be mindblown. From drug epic, to children's film, to Bollywood spectacle, to unexpected sci-fi, the man changes spots every season. Such was the shock of The Unnamed. I went in expecting something funny and maudlin and brackish like And Then We Came to the End. And instead, I received a heartcrushing punch to the sternum. The Unnamed is a very different book, a total diversion from his other work, completely unexpected and absolutely soul-smashingly wistful. It's like expecting a ghost story and having someone go into great and morose detail describing the death...
Brian Prisco's Review
Have you ever been surprised by an artist? The one who immediately comes to mind is Danny Boyle. If you were to look over his canon of work, you'd be mindblown. From drug epic, to children's film, to Bollywood spectacle, to unexpected sci-fi, the man changes spots every season. Such was the shock of The Unnamed. I went in expecting something funny and maudlin and brackish like And Then We Came to the End. And instead, I received a heartcrushing punch to the sternum. The Unnamed is a very different book, a total diversion from his other work, completely unexpected and absolutely soul-smashingly wistful. It's like expecting a ghost story and having someone go into great and morose detail describing the death...
- 1/29/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Joshua Ferris. Photograph by Nina Subin. Author Joshua Ferris had a quick and happy rise to literary fame in 2007 with his first novel, Then We Came to the End, which was nominated for a National Book Award and won the Pen/Hemingway Prize. When The New Yorker published Ferris's “The Dinner Party,” in August 2008, it became cultishly enjoyed as a short story par excellence. Now, Ferris has published a new novel, The Unnamed, which relates the dark, bizarre story of Tim and Jane Farnsworth, a rather un-dark, un-bizarre couple living in suburban New York. When Tim’s mysterious involuntary-walking disease returns in midlife, his affluent lifestyle as a trial lawyer and his pleasant marriage to the terminally devoted Jane are tossed into chaos and heartache. Ferris took a few moments from his time as the proud father of a four-month-old son to speak to Vf Daily about his new book.
- 1/25/2010
- Vanity Fair
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