Focusing
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Some light wear on jacket - very good copy
What begins as an ordinary life quickly unravels into something far more unsettling in Vickery Turner's Focusing, a quietly compelling work of modern fiction published in 1984. The novel draws readers into a world where perception itself becomes the central battleground, charting a protagonist's fraught attempt to find clarity — psychological, emotional, and existential — amid the distractions and distortions of contemporary life. Turner writes with a precise, understated economy, her prose wielding restraint as a deliberate artistic instrument, allowing tension to accumulate beneath the surface of seemingly mundane events. Focusing is a novel preoccupied with the act of seeing — truly seeing — and asks whether clarity, once achieved, is liberation or burden. For readers who prize introspective fiction that rewards patience, this is a work that lingers long after the final page.
Author: Vickery Turner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Victor Gollancz Ltd
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Some light wear on jacket - very good copy
What begins as an ordinary life quickly unravels into something far more unsettling in Vickery Turner's Focusing, a quietly compelling work of modern fiction published in 1984. The novel draws readers into a world where perception itself becomes the central battleground, charting a protagonist's fraught attempt to find clarity — psychological, emotional, and existential — amid the distractions and distortions of contemporary life. Turner writes with a precise, understated economy, her prose wielding restraint as a deliberate artistic instrument, allowing tension to accumulate beneath the surface of seemingly mundane events. Focusing is a novel preoccupied with the act of seeing — truly seeing — and asks whether clarity, once achieved, is liberation or burden. For readers who prize introspective fiction that rewards patience, this is a work that lingers long after the final page.