The Limits of Vision by Robert Irwin
Hardcover, UK | 1st Edition | 1st Printing | 1986 | Publisher: Viking
A strange, brilliant, and deeply unsettling first edition from Robert Irwin — one of the most singular and extraordinary novelists in the English language, whose work occupies a unique space between literary fiction, surrealism, and the uncanny. Irwin’s novels, including The Arabian Nightmare (one of the most acclaimed British novels of the 1980s) and The Limits of Vision, are deeply erudite, hallucinatory, and impossible to categorise. Irwin is also a distinguished Islamic scholar and historian. The Limits of Vision follows a housewife whose mundane domestic life becomes increasingly strange and disturbing. Published by Viking in 1986 — now 40 years old and genuinely scarce.
Condition: Very Good, but will show signs of previous ownership. Pages show signs of foxing from age.
A rare first edition of a visionary British novel now 40 years old — a must for collectors of unusual and underappreciated English literary fiction.