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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...loving wife, a high-paying job that he loves, and an 8-bedroom mansion in the suburbs. Sensing his oncoming relapse, Tim contemplates what he stands to lose: “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 would lose his family. He stood just inside the door and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted.” This is not simply a story about one man and his tragic fall?...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ferris' Account Of an 'Unnamed' Mental Affliction | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...damage that Tim does to his suit jacket. Ferris sustains his novel with lyrical sentences and piercing images—a wife and daughter squinting in the dark to spot a man lost in his own body, a ripped suit and a grown man on his knees, and expensive copper pots sparkling in the light, unused. In “The Unnamed,” Ferris begins to depart from the theatrical and outlandish antics of his literary debut, tackling a story of emotional turmoil and loss with stirring power...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ferris' Account Of an 'Unnamed' Mental Affliction | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

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