In 2007, a young, handsome and totally unknown writer named Joshua Ferris rocked the publishing scene with his brilliant debut novel And Then We Came to the End. 
Writing in a first-person-plural narrative, Ferris satirized the American workplace by exploring a fictional Chicago advertising agency at the end of the 90s Internet boom. The book won the PEN/Hemingway Award, was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s “10 Best Books of the Year” and became a finalist for the National Book Award. Not bad for a 32-year-old who worked in—you guessed it—advertising before turning to writing.
In January 2010, Ferris will be back with The Unnamed—a novel that sounds as mysterious as its title. The novel focuses on Tim and Jane Farnsworth, a long-married couple who seem to have it all. But Tim has twice battled a bizarre, inexplicable illness, and when that illness returns, Tim’s behavior becomes so frightening that he and Jane are forced to leave their comfortable existence and battle against a series of terrifying new realities. Industry buzz says that while this book is absolutely a departure for Ferris, the new novel is well-worth the wait.
Pre-orders, anyone?
To read more about Ferris and his debut novel, check out his 2007 interview with BookPage.
will be back again bookmarked it for safe keeping