John Banville’s luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory won the Booker Prize in 2005
The Sea
Written by John Banville
- Winner
- The Man Booker Prize 2005
- Published by Picador
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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.
John Banville
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland. His novel The Sea won the Booker Prize in 2005
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