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Sea, the by Banville John

*Winner of the Man Booker Prize*

A luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory.

In this extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory (USA Today), John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time.

What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel -- among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.

John Banville was born in the Irish town of Wexford in 1945. He has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the GuardianFiction Prize, and the Lannan Literary Award for Writing for his previous thirteen works. He is based in Dublin.

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ISBN 13 9780307263117
ISBN 10 0307263118
Title Sea, the
Author Banville John
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 2005-12-07
Number of pages 195
Prizes Winner of Man Booker Prize (Novel) 2005
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.