{"product_id":"the-limit-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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis altogether singular, remarkable novel has been as good as unobtainable for decades. Its reissue has been long awaited by Rosalind Belben's admirers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnglish 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50653992911122,"sku":"9781681377520","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9dab9514-653a-4752-a181-980cc425500e.jpg?v=1733369516","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-limit-9781681377520","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}