Joshua Ferris’ Second Novel Has Legs and Knows How to Use Them

New York Press | January 14, 2010
Whereas Illinois native Joshua Ferris, author of the award-winning debut novel Then We Came to the End, voluntarily relocated to New York, the protagonist of his thoughtful and unsettling second novel, The Unnamed, finds that a force beyond his control governs his physical movement.

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