The Sea
Author(s): John Banville
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005.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 Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. First published 2005.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Campbell Books Ltd
- : 0.198
- : 01 January 2010
- : 1.7 Centimeters X 13 Centimeters X 19.7 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : John Banville
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : English
- : 823.914
- : very good
- : 272
- : FA