The Limit
$29.91
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
12 September 2023
Summary
A brief, potent, and audaciously written novel about a husband caring for his dying wife, and the shifting nature of their relationship as the end approaches.
Anna, an Englishwoman, has married, quite late in life, a merchant marine officer, an Italian. Beginning—and ending—at a point shortly before her death, the story told in The Limit focuses attention on her past and his future along lines of narrowing perspective. In the ten years of this odd couple’s life together, the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681377520 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681377527 |
| Author: | Rosalind Belben, Paul Griffiths |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 126mm |
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“I can’t think of anyone writing in English (with the possible exception of Beckett) whose prose is so beautiful.” —David Plante“The grotesquerie is Swiftian, but the compassion is uniquely Miss Belben’s. The Limit becomes a great tribute to the overcoming strength of human love, and to the resilience of a human being even at the extremest margins of life. The book possesses the dying woman so amply as to make her, as we say—broaching fiction’s deepest paradox—live.” —Valentine Cunningham, The New Statesman“I’ve always admired the work of Rosalind Belben, a truly original writer, who has gone her own way all her life.” —Gabriel Josipovici
About The Author
Rosalind Belben
Rosalind Belben’s work has been consistently admired. Her novels include Choosing Spectacles, Is Beauty Good, Hound Music and Dreaming of Dead People. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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