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The Sea by John Banville
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * An "extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife.In this luminous novel, 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 | 9781400097029 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400097029 |
| Title | The Sea |
| Author | John Banville |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2006-08-15 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Winner of Man Booker Prize 2005 |
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