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...
Rating: 3.5* of five The Book Description: 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...
Beautifully written but tediously plotted, I struggled with whether to give this 3 stars or 4. I ended up knocking off a star because in the end my ratings are based mostly on how much I enjoyed a book, and while I can appreciate the aesthetic and literary qualities of The Sea, the bottom line is th...
Reading John Banville is like taking a long, sumptuous bath. In my book, he is one of the finest prose stylists alive. The man can write. His language and sentences are gorgeous.I’d like to say Banville is a marvel at describing characters but in fact he’s a marvel at describing everything, from a b...
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