The Sea by John Banville Paperback Book

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Author: John Banville

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Random House Inc

Published: Aug 2006

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $17.00

Pages: 208

Synopsis

Max Morden is an aging art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. In his grief, he takes a trip to the seaside, to the "rubble of the past," where he and his family spent holidays as a child. Here grief and memory coincide as he ponders not only his wife’s death, but the drowning of two childhood friends, and, in the end, he finds that memory has the power to redeem him. THE SEA won the Mann Booker Prize in 2005.

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Reviews

BookLender review by Evelyn on 2011-07-21 11:15:27

The words just flowed in this novel. The author paints such complete pictures that the reader feels as though he were there. It depicted mans desire to be better than he is, and the pain that sometimes exacts.

BookLender review by Jan on 2010-03-25 07:10:28

Seemed to me an effort by the author to let everyone know how large a vocabulary he had. I tried to read this for two weeks and could not keep past, present and futures seperated and gave up on knowing the meaning of the many, many large and unnecessary words he uses to impress someone. I was not impressed! DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS!