{"product_id":"the-limit-isbn-9781681377520","title":"The Limit","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Limit\u003c\/i\u003e 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 limits of devotion have somehow been reached. And yet, when Anna can no longer speak and appears to understand nothing, Ilario feels closer to her than ever. But Anna, so old, ill, and wasted, is a child again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis altogether singular, remarkable novel has been as good as unobtainable for decades. Its reissue has been long awaited by Rosalind Belben’s admirers.“I can’t think of anyone writing in English (with the possible exception of Beckett) whose prose is so beautiful.” —David Plante\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The grotesquerie is Swiftian, but the compassion is uniquely Miss Belben’s. \u003ci\u003eThe Limit\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’ve always admired the work of Rosalind Belben, a truly original writer, who has gone her own way all her life.” —Gabriel JosipoviciEnglish novelist \u003cb\u003eRosalind Belben\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Dorset, where she still lives. Her novel \u003ci\u003eOur Horses in Egypt \u003c\/i\u003ewon the James Tait Black Award in 2007. Her other novels include \u003ci\u003eHound Music\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Choosing Spectacles\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIs Beauty Good.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Griffiths\u003c\/b\u003e is a Welsh novelist, librettist, and music critic. His novel \u003ci\u003eMr. Beethoven\u003c\/i\u003e was published by New York Review Books in 2021. He lives in the village of Manorbier, Wales.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304346276069,"sku":"NP9781681377520","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681377520.jpg?v=1767740246","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-limit-isbn-9781681377520","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}