The Sea
by:
John Banville (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330483292
Publish date: 2006
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
audio book had a lovely rhythm to it, but it's one of those books that i'm going "i have no idea what this is about" the whole time.
I can find no fault with the writing, but the story, while not really long, meandered too much and in the end, did not really have much of a point. I had to take breaks while reading this book, because I kept losing interest.Had the writing itself not been so strong, this would have been a 2 star b...
The Sea is a slim book. The final, single-sentence paragraph closes full stop on page 195. Slim, but not brief. Within its covers is an entire world, a world of one man’s memories of two deaths—one at the beginning of his life and the other in his old age. The book takes the form of a sort of memoir...
bookshelves: tbr-busting-2014, spring-2014, booker-winner, britain-ireland, radio-4x, lit-richer, lifestyles-deathstyles, those-autumn-years Read from March 24, 2013 to April 11, 2014 Description: In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville in...
Recommended by Dolors, in relation to The Sense of an Ending.Dolors' review of this is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/625167731
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