The Sea
The Booker Prize-winning novel
$19.54
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2024
Summary
‘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 Mr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035039043 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035039044 |
| Author: | John Banville |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 131mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |

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Critics Review
A 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 *
We can count ourselves privileged to be around at the same time as [Banville] is * Guardian *
A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected – Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005
John Banville
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.
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