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The unnamed

Joshua Ferris

2010313 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2010
first published
  • 2010Little, Brown and Company · ENGISBN 9780316078177
  • 2010Reagan ArthurISBN 9780316034005
  • 2010Viking · 313 pages · ENGISBN 9780670917709
  • 2010Little, Brown and Co. · 313 pages · ENGISBN 9780316034012
  • 2010HACHETTE BOOK GROUP USA · 313 pagesISBN 9780316072748
  • 2010Luchterhand Literaturvlg.ISBN 9783630872971
  • 2011Isis · 376 pages · ENGISBN 9780753187135
  • 2011Penguin Group(CA)ISBN 9780141037240

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 wouldlose 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 dazzling novel about a marriage and a family and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. It is the heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.

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