The Sea

John Banville

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English

Picador
01 August 2006

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Booker Prizes

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.

Celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential Picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.

By: John Banville
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 187g
ISBN: 9780330483292
ISBN 10: 0330483293
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 August 2006
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://www.john-banville.com/

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fourteen previous novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.

Reviews for The Sea

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