Description:
The Sea is Banvilles 13th novel. It win the 2005 Booker Prize. This is an Advance Readers Copy first American edition.Written as a reflective journal it is the story of Max Morden, a retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those he lived as a child and as an adult.
Seamus Heaney said of The Sea, " Isn't it wonderful to be part of a culture that produces prose as good as that"