The Sea
04 September 2008Imprint: Picador
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...
Details
04 September 2008272 pages
9780330464697Imprint: Picador
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
