The Sea

John Banville · 2005 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Max Morden, a recently widowed art historian, returns to a seaside village in Ireland where he spent a childhood summer with the Grace family. His memories of that summer and of his wife's dying wind around each other. Banville's most widely read novel won the 2005 Booker Prize.

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