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The Sea

by John Banville · 2005

Literary Fiction · ranked #133 in category

Winner · The Booker Prize, 2005

Max Morden, a recently widowed art historian, returns to the Irish seaside resort where he spent a childhood summer — and where something happened to a family called the Graces that he has spent his adult life trying not to remember. Banville's Booker Prize-winning novel weaves between past and present in prose of exceptional, almost painful beauty.

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The verdict

Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2005 · 2000s
Author
John Banville
Standing
Essential Read

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