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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400097029
ISBN: 1400097029
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: August 15, 2006
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Sales Rank: 12375
Studio: Vintage
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Product Description:
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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The story of The Sea matters less than the way it is told. Max Morden, a recent widower, takes up residence at a seaside inn that played host to a transformative summer of his childhood. Now, he spends his time drinking and reflecting upon his wife's illness and that summer long ago. Using the sea as both metaphor and setting, Banville deftly handles the universal nature of loss.
Banville writes not about but through his narrator, an art historian, and the language of The Sea reflects ... Read More
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Banville's novels that I have read are all about alcoholic old men full of self-hatred. The Sea is another item in this genre.
The narrator in The Sea, Max, is a half-hearted art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. The most intensely and empathetically described events in this novel are of Max's and Anna's cancer episodes. Anna's disease and lingering death are not easy, and are touchingly described in bits and pieces of Max's recollection. Anyone who has been through ... Read More
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Booker Prize-winning author John Banville presents a sensitive and remarkably complete character study of Max Morden, an art critic/writer from Ireland whose wife has just died of a lingering illness. Seeking solace, Max has checked into the Cedars, a now-dilapidated guest house in the seaside village of Ballyless, where he and his family spent their summers when he was a child. There he spent hours in the company of Chloe and Myles Grace, his constant companions. Images of foreboding suggest that some ... Read More
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John Banville has a great ear for prose, both his own and others (in his outstanding literary criticism). However.
Humbert Humbert and Charles Kinbote SHOULD be insufferable. But they are not. Unlike Banville's narrators, who truly ARE insufferable. I did like The Untouchable. The Sea is saved somewhat by the last ten pages or so. But this (very short) book nonetheless begins to get unbearable about halfway through -- many, many descriptions of light glinting off water, many, many sinister ... Read More
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Yes, it's beautifully written prose. Each sentence crafted by an artist. I suppose that's the fuel behind its winning the Man Booker prize. But can you really enjoy reading it when you need to consult a dictionary for every other sentence? This book seems more like an exercise in creating "texture" rather than plot. I've never seen so many obscure words spread around, and for what purpose? About as much fun reading as it is to watch a modern-day spelling bee.
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