{"product_id":"the-sea","title":"The Sea","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Sea\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Banville\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781400097029\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage International\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e195\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage International","offers":[{"title":"The Sea | John Banville | Paperback | 9781400097029 | New | Fiction 1663127","offer_id":50784654262530,"sku":"1663127","price":44.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81wnOx2nnFL.jpg?v=1792239516","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-sea","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}