The Limit Belben Rosalind
The Limit Belben Rosalind 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 has…
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The Limit Belben Rosalind
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 has married an Italian seaman, Ilario. In each chapter, dying becomes an appraisal of memory, a confession, perhaps, of secrets shared and not shared. Beginning--and ending--at a point shortly before her death, the story told in The Limit draws upon her past and his future to focus attention, with increasing intensity, along the lines of narrowing perspective.
And yet, when Anna can no longer speak, appears to understand nothing, Ilario feels at his closest to her: Anna, so old, ill, and wasted, is a child again.The Limit, inevitably, is not about dying, but living. In the ten years of the couple's marriage, the limits of devotion had somehow to be reached. To read it is to have one's perception