The Sea
05 October 2007Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
‘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...
Details
05 October 2007360 minutes
9780230708846Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
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
