{"product_id":"the-sea","title":"The Sea","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003cb\u003e- An \"extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory\" (\u003ci\u003eUSA Today) \u003c\/i\u003eabout a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this luminous novel, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat 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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1400097029\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781400097029\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Banville, John\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2006)","offer_id":46081557692613,"sku":"9781400097029","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781400097029.jpg?v=1776047248","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-sea","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}