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Title	:	The Sea
Author	:	John Banville
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 195 pages
Published	:	August 15th 2006 by Vintage (first published May 17th 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature

The Sea

John Banville

Paperback | Pages: 195 pages

Rating: 3.51 | 22994 Users | 2357 Reviews

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In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, 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."

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Original Title:	The Sea
ISBN:	1400097029 (ISBN13: 9781400097029)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Max Morden
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (2005), Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award for Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year (2006), Prix Littéraire Européen - Madeleine Zepter (2007)

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The Sea really bugged me. I've never read another John Banville novel, so I don't know whether this one is typical of his writing in general, but nothing irritates me more these days than a writer who has considerable gifts at his command who writes novels that function as elegant window displays for the considerable gifts at his command. The plot of the book, such as it is, finds middle-aged Max Morden retiring to a rented house by the sea, near the "chalets" where he spent his boyhood summers,

I think there's a big difference between literature and fiction, and this book is a perfect example - as is obvious from the number of negative reviews posted on this website! Some books can be read purely for their entertainment value. We like reading them because the plots and settings and characters capture our interest. That's what fiction does. But some books provide an additional dimension for readers who are willing to put a little more time and thought into what they are reading and who

Real Rating: 3.5* of five The Publisher Says: When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.The Grace family appear that long ago summer as if from another world. Drawn to the Grace twins, Chloe and Myles, Max soon finds himself entangled in their lives, which are as seductive as they are unsettling. What ensues will haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that is to

The past beats inside me like a second heart.- John Banville, The Sea Over the years, I've collected about 3 or 4 Banville books (just bought a slog more). The first was given to me by a girl I liked in HS, but never got around to reading it or dating her. I was finally inspired (or moved?) to read 'the Sea' (and a couple other Ireland-themed novels) because I was going to spend a week with the wife in Ireland and there is nothing better to read about on vacation than sex*, death, loss and sand.

This review may contain spoilers.Max Morden, recently widowed and father of a grown daughter, has traveled back to the sea, back to the seaside property that was the scene of a tragic event some fifty odd years ago. He would remember meeting the Grace family and becoming emotionally attached to the mother, Mrs. Grace, and to falling in love with her daughter Chloe.This is my first Banville book and I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Not because I didn't think it would be good, but by how

I just have to say it: it's all semiunremarkable until page 170 or so (this book, like many in the modern canon, such as Amsterdam, another Booker winner, is short in that bittersweet sort of wayperilously malingering, at 200 pages, between being almost a novel, but not quite a novella)the plot ebbs and flows (ha) through an ocean of profound memories. The narrator chronicles, basically, two points in his life which left him devastated. His first ever, and his latest, all revolve around the sea,

The silence about me was heavy as the sea. Sitting by the sea, I am trying hard to evade the embrace of camphoric memories that hover schemingly, stroked by the amorous waves. Often this colossal sapphire vial of solitude, seduced by a flicker of cuprous sky or a kiss of the timorous breeze, changes colour and instead of heaping balms of comfort, loathes me with a vision so sharp that a part of me detaches with a vile force and travels into the dense, supine but thorny gardens of bygone land.