Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2005
The Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory,childhood and loss.
When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday,he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace,with their worldly ease and candour,were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries,the Grace twins Myles and Chloe,who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately,even intimately,and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9780330483292Number of pages: 272Weight: 187 gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 18 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
`A masterly study of grief,memory and love recollected.'- Professor John Sutherland,Chair of Judges Man Booker Prize 2005
'Remarkable... The power and strangeness and piercing beauty of (The Sea is) a wonder.'- The Washington Post Book World
'With his fastidious wit and exquisite style,John Banville is the heir to Nabokov... The Sea (is) his best novel so far.'- The Sunday Telegraph
'The Sea offers an extraordinary meditation on mortality,grief,death,childhood and memory... Undeniably brilliant.'- USA Today
'A gem... (The Sea) is a presence on every page,its ceaseless undulations echoing constantly in the cadences of the prose. This novel shouldn't simply be read. It needs to be heard,for its sound is intoxicating... A winning work of art.'- The Philadelphia Inquirer
John Banville
John Banville is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist,short story writer,playwright and screenwriter.
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