The Sea (Picador 40th Anniversary Edition) (Picador 40th Anniversary Editn)
by:
John Banville (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B0079AHEMQ
Publish date: March 1st 2012
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 288
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
Log in with Facebook 
 (Picador 40th Anniversary Editn) by John Banville, now listed on BookLikes)