The Limits of Vision - Softcover

Irwin, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585674605 ISBN 13: 9781585674602

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about her quotidian activities-having the girls over for coffee, tidying the house, making dinner-it becomes increasingly clear that her sanity is unraveling at an alarming rate. Irwin is at his creative best here, as he describes Marcia's conversations with Mucor, the "mouthpiece for the Dirt, the Empire of Decay and Ruin, the Principle of Evil," as well as such scientists and artists of the past as William Blake, Charles Dickens, Leonardo da Vinci, and Charles Darwin.

About this title

Review:

"Unique, a ravishing product of pure imagination."

"Unique, a ravishing product of pure imagination." (Ruth Rendell)

"Binds together philosophy and mayhem . . . "The Limits of Vision" ranks as a genuine (and rare) work of the imagination." (Jeanette Winterson)
"Unique, a ravishing product of pure imagination." (Ruth Rendell)

About the Author:

ROBERT IRWIN, the eminent Arabist, is the author of The Arabian Nightmare, Exquisite Corpse, Dangerous Knowledge, Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh, and The Limits of Vision.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1585674605
• ISBN 13: 9781585674602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120