{"product_id":"9781035039043","title":"The Sea","description":"Author: John Banville\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035039043\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 08 Oct 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected’ – Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss.\u003c\/b\u003e When art historian 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. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. 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. \u003cb\u003ePart of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46528134348958,"sku":"TLD-9781035039043","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781035039043.jpg?v=1771477713","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781035039043","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}