The Sea - John Banville

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER
NATIONAL BESTSELLER An"extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife.

In this luminous novel,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.