Sea

Banville, John

£9.99

Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize

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Publish Date: 05/03/2010

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.

Additional information

Weight 182 g
Dimensions 197 × 130 × 18 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

263

Language

English

Edition

Reprints

Dewey

823.92 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K