The Sea - Softcover

Banville, John

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ISBN 10: 1447202848 ISBN 13: 9781447202844

Publisher: Pan MacMillan, 2012

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Incandescent prose. Beautifully textured characterisation. Transparent narratives. The adjectives to describe the writing of John Banville are all affirmative, and The Sea is a ringing affirmation of all his best qualities. His publishers are claiming that this novel by the Booker-shortlisted author is his finest yet, and while that claim may have an element of hyperbole, there is no denying that this perfectly balanced book is among the writer’s most accomplished work. Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with. He decides that he will return to a town on the coast at which he spent a memorable holiday when a boy. His memory of that time devolves on the charismatic Grace family, particularly the seductive twins Myles and Chloe. In a very short time, Max found himself drawn into a strange relationshi

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About the Author:

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fifteen 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.

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John Lee has his work cut out, presenting this restrained and beautifully written novel, which won the Booker Prize in spite of an elegiac pace and almost complete absence of action except in memory. He gives us the inner life of Max Morden as he returns, after the death of his wife, Annie, from cancer, to a seaside village where he spent childhood summers. Max takes a room in a house once rented by the Grace family, who entranced him when he was young, and keeps company with The Little Corporal, his bottle of Napoleon Brandy, as he remembers the complicated loves of his childhood and his marriage. Lee's beautifully accented, fully felt performance brings warmth and color to what could be a bleak portrait. B.G. � AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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