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The Sea
by Banville, John
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- first
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Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Picador, 2005. A first edition, first printing by Picador in 2005. A near fine, if not better, copy with only slight bumping to the base of the spine. In a like, unclipped wrapper with bumping towards the middle of the spine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page without dedication Written in Banville's precise and beautiful prose, his thirteenth novel The Sea is a reconciliation with loss and remembrance. Winner of the booker prize 2005. Banville also wrote the screenplay for the film which premiered at the Edinburgh international Film Festival in 2013.
Synopsis
John Banville is an Irish novelist and screenwriter born in 1945. He sometimes writes under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. Banville is known for the dark humor of his arch narrators and his cold, inventive prose style. In this novel, Banville's main character is Max Morden, an art historian, who has recently suffered the demise of his beloved wife Anna. It is a journey back down the earliest roadways and alleys of Max's memory. Intertwined within this story are Max’s memories of his wife, Anna and of their life together; his relationship with his grown daughter, Claire, who is desperate to pull him from his grief; and with the other boarders at the house where he is staying, where the past beats inside him “like a second heart.” John Banville, famous for his poetic language, now gives us a uniquely reflective novel about loss, love and the transfiguring power of memory.
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- Bookseller
- John Atkinson Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17613
- Title
- The Sea
- Author
- Banville, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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