The Sea

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Picador
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 263 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9780330483292