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Overview'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' - Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, 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. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John BanvillePublisher: Pan Macmillan Imprint: Picador Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.186kg ISBN: 9781035039043ISBN 10: 1035039044 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 02 May 2024 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsA novel in which all of his remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art, disquieting, beautiful, intelligent, and in the end, surprisingly, offering consolation -- Allan Massie * Scotsman * You can smell and feel and see his world with extraordinary clarity. It is a work of art, and I’ll bet it will still be read and admired in seventy-five years. -- Rick Gekoski * The Times * Poetry seems to come easily to Banville. There is so much to applaud in this book that it deserves more than one reading. * Literary Review * A brilliant, sensuous, discombobulating novel. * Spectator * Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.john-banville.com/John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed novels including The Book of Evidence, The Infinities and The Newton Letter. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.john-banville.com/Countries AvailableAll regions |