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Exasperated by the illness’s return, Tim rips his suit just as it will tear apart his seemingly perfect life—complete with an attractive, 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...
...surveys his rococo carpets and marble counter, Tim only sees the material objects that his corporate job handed him—failing to recognize the family that it had already taken away. His relationships with his wife and daughter have been unknowingly frayed because of his long hours and lack of emotional presence. Though the illness steals the tangible comforts—the house, the office with a view, and even a few frostbitten fingers and toesit leaves behind the immaterial and the eternal—love, devotion, and his mind. By forcing Tim to reevaluate what...
...time of crisis lays bare. They’d never find him. They had already passed him. He was standing in front of them mile after mile but they were too blind and frantic to see.” Not only does the disease afflict Tim; it torments his wife and daughter as they realize their inability to find, comfort, and save him. Ferris painstakingly captures the psychology of each member of the Farnsworth family, as they cycle through anger, indignation, grief, resignation, and acceptance—sometimes alone and sometimes together...
Though this ridiculously out-of-place whodunit detracts from the success of the work as a whole, it does not do quite the 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...
...term, in the midst of an acute television binge, I happened upon a trailer insipid enough to jolt me out of my Jersey Shore stupor. The movie in question: The Bounty Hunter, starring Gerald Butler in the eponymous role as a vindictive, muscled man who violently kidnaps his ex-wife with all the sadistic merriment audiences have come to expect from the former King of Sparta. The trailer, in which a stiletto-clad Jennifer Aniston is stuffed in a trunk, handcuffed to a bed, and tackled, has such an air of comic exuberance that one almost expects to hear...