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The Sea (Man Booker Prize) by Banville, John is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Sea (Man Booker Prize) about?
A man attempts to escape a recent loss while confronting a trauma from a long-lost summer, in John Banville’s haunting and evocative novel.Led back to Ballyless by a dream, Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth. The Grace family appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Drawn to the twins, Chloe and Myles, Max soon found himself entangled in their lives, which were as seductive as they were unsettling. What ensued haunts him for the rest of his years and shapes everything that is to follow."As Michael Cunningham's The Hours was to Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, so, roughly, is The Sea to [Henry James’] The Turn of the Screw. It is deconstruction and homage at once, an utterly contemporary novel that nonetheless could only have come from a mind steeped in the history of the novel and deeply reflective about what makes fiction still worthwhile ... Max becomes a character in a story of his own making. No longer merely a narrator, he becomes a true author. He resumes control. He gets what he came for. The unsayable is said at last." - Jack Miles, The Los Angeles TimesJohn Banville is the author of more than fifteen novels, a short
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Banville, John
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307429308
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.49 / 5 (16,855 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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