false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173803878m/329941.jpg 3656 17 In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel — among the finest we have had from this masterful writer. This short novel won the Booker Man prize for good reason. His prose ranges from the proseaic to Shakespearean. His story is a dark tale of dealing with death, grief, aging, and not being able to go back...the sea is the setting, perhaps a book-long metaphor for death? 987554 2005 The Sea total:2231|5:362|4:691|3:660|2:362|1:156| 2231 7434 3539 489 1 7 false false Fri Mar 07 16:25:15 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 28 14:48:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 9 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 04:49:48 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 05:29:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 03 15:01:13 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 06:51:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 19:50:44 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 25 12:13:56 -0700 2009 The Odyssey and other old tales, and perpetutaed in modernity by the concepts set forth in Joseph Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces. These myths rely on content, that is the nature of the tale, to bring them to such a ...more...]]> 2 3 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jul 11 21:36:21 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 21 20:04:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 2 false false Wed Jul 11 22:27:48 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 01 20:06:22 -0800 2008 ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 10:49:25 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 11:00:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 05:35:15 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 19:44:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Jan 02 13:52:57 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 25 05:42:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 17 10:56:14 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 10:57:26 -0700 2008 Amazon.com recommendations list, and finished it just after Mike got home from work late last night. (Remember that I've previously said I shouldn't read at home because, when I do, nothing gets done...)

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The Sea is the story of a middle aged man who returns to a sea-side town he knew as a child after the death of his wife. There he revisits and relives the relationships and experiences of his ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 22:59:38 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 23:48:53 -0700 2007 memory s...more...]]> 0 5 false false Tue Apr 22 15:00:08 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 15:00:08 -0700 2008 incandescent review as fodder for my collection of hackneyed review cliches.

In three taut, elegant paragraphs, Forshaw leaves the reader breathless, stunned by the vacuous pomposity ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=329941