The Sea by Banville, John

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An "extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife.

In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time.

What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel--among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.

Author: John Banville
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/15/2006
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781400097029

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.5
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 103447 / Sea


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/20/2006 pg. 20

About the Author
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. The author of thirteen previous novels, he has been the recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. He lives in Dublin.