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There is something cruelly funny about the image of a middle-aged corporate lawyer struggling to tear a custom-tailored suit with his bare hands. It almost belongs more in Joshua Ferris’ debut, “Then We Came to the End”—an...
The duct tape runner, Harvard alumnus Jeffrey T. Ferris ’77, became Lieberman’s first subject.
Like his first book, The Unnamed requires that you buy into its premise up front. If your reaction is "Gimme a break," get out now, because Ferris is not going to give you a break. The walking thing isn't played for laughs. (See the top 10 nonfiction books of...
But Ferris isn't actually interested in Tim's disorder as such. This isn't a book about neurology. Ferris is interested in the blast radius around the sickness, the damage it does to Tim and his family. The longer it resists a cure or even a diagnosis, the more...
The Unnamed isn't a grim novel, exactly, but it's grim-ish. Only rarely does Ferris show the nice touch with a comic digression that he gave free rein to in Then We Came to the End. (Though there is a one-off about a man named Lev with...