Book description
'A novel in which all of his remarkable gifts come together to produce
a real work of art, disquieting, beautiful, intelligent' Allan Massie,
Scotsman First published in 2005, The Sea was critically acclaimed as an
extraordinary achievement. It went on to win that year's Man Booker
Prize, one of the most hotly contested in the history of the award. When
Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a
childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and
confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children
Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world.
He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would
haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to
follow. In 2012 Picador celebrate our 40th anniversary. During that time
we have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including
Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding,
Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to
bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry
from across the globe. Discover more at picador. com/40
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the
author of fifteen novels including The Sea, which won the 2005
Man Booker Prize. He has received a literary award from the Lannan
Foundation. He lives in Dublin.
