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The Sea (2005) is the eighteenth novel by Irish author John Banville. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Plot summary
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The Sea is the story of a self-aware, imperfect man attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those whom he loved as a child and as an adult. Max Morden, an art historian in his sixties whose wife has recently died of cancer, retreats to the seaside village of Ballyless where he once spent a holiday as a child and alternately narrates the memories of his life with his wife and that summer holiday. It was during that holiday that he met the wealthy Grace family and became infatuated, first with the Grace mother, and then with the Grace daughter, Chloe, who later drowned with her brother while swimming in the sea.
Awards and nominations The novel won the Man Booker Prize (2005). The selection of The Sea for the Booker Prize was a satisfying victory for Banville, as his novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted in 1989 but lost to The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Ishiguro was again on the shortlist in 2005 with his novel Never Let Me Go. In fact it was reported in The Times that they had whittled the shortlist down to those two novels and it was only the chair John Sutherland's casting vote that decided the winner. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. ...
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