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Title	:	The Sea
Author	:	John Banville
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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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

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.

I wish to thank my wonderful friend Seemita, who is truly an amazing reviewer, for inspiring me to read this book."The silence about me was heavy as the sea."Silence. It is a special kind of language. The language of the dead, of those long gone, of the forgotten, the misunderstood, the hurt, the mad and, sometimes, the content. What do they tell me? What does silence tell me? What does it tell Max Morden? It tells him a story. The story of his life. It embraces him, caresses him, whispers to

If I was John Banville, I'd be tremendously proud to find my masterpiece resting a mere two million places below Fifty Shades of Shite in the Goodreads rankings.#arrived

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 narrator of The Sea is an odious man. I wasnt sure I ever understood why Banville made him so odious. As a child he hits his dog for pleasure; he pulls the legs off insects and burns them in oil. As an adult, hes a crude misogynist without knowing hes a misogynist, a narcissist and a masochistic misanthrope. He makes constant allusions to his acquired humility and wisdom but he comes across throughout the book as largely ignorant and arrogant. Theres no apotheosis. Because Max is presented

When my wife died suddenly in 1998 from a cerebral aneurysm, one of the things that I did in the wake of her death was to begin to reconnect with people and places that had meaning both for us as a couple and for me alone. In many cases, I ended up returning to places from my own childhood and reconnecting with people whom I had not contacted for years. Both the process itself and the actual reconnections to past places and friends helped me cope with the loss. It also activated memories that I