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Author: John Banville
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Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The Sea employs John Banville's precise and elegant prose, encompassing both a compromise with life's losses and extraordinary reflections on memory and cognition. It is completely convincing, deeply moving, and profoundly articulated, undoubtedly one of the finest works by a great master of language. The Sea offers a masterful exploration of grief, memory, and a cool love. In Banville's work, one can clearly sense the shadows of Joyce, Beckett, and Nabokov.
——Art Historian Marcus Merton of the UK Booker Prize Jury
Facing a crossroads in life, he struggles to cope with all the chaos. Yet, new losses in life relentlessly torment him, and old wounds prove to be insurmountable. He decides to return to the seaside town where he once spent his childhood holidays. Years earlier, the Grace family seemed to come from another world. Mr. and Mrs. Grace, with their worldly ease, were the epitome of sophistication, but what captivated Marcus were the Grace twins of his own age: the silent, expressionless Maurel and the volatile, alluring, and blunt Chloe. He gradually gets to know them, falling in love, feeling uneasy, shy, fantasizing, and even engaging in intimate relationships. However, what follows is so legendary that it haunts him for the rest of his life and influences everything that comes after.