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The Sea

The Sea

by JohnBanville (Author)

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    Hardcover 2005

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family appear that long ago summer as if from another world. Drawn to the Grace twins, Chloe and Myles, Max soon finds himself entangled in their lives, which are as seductive as they are unsettling. What ensues will haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that is to follow. John Banville is one of the most sublime writers working in the English language. Utterly compelling, profoundly moving and illuminating, "The Sea" is quite possibly the best thing he has ever written.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 272
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 03 Jun 2005
ISBN 10: 0330483285
ISBN 13: 9780330483285
Prizes: Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005.

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books are Nightspawn, Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976), Kepler (which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1981), The Newton Letter (which was filmed fo Channel 4), Mefisto, The Book of Evidence (shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize and winner of the 1989 Guinness Peat Aviation Award), Ghosts, Athena, The Untouchable, Eclipse and Shroud . He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.