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 The Sea - John Banville
Newest Review: ... summers. He’s staying in a boarding house as a lodger and is thinking of moving permanently there, his wife has recently died ... more  ... of cancer and he doesn’t want to live alone in his empty house.
There are three time levels, the old Max in the boarding house lives in the present from which he looks back at the past, the last year of his wife’s illness and their life together and also at the past half a century ago, his last summer holidays which he spent at the sea, he hasn‘t been back since then, the different time levels aren’t clearly distinguished, sometimes they flow into each other in one paragraph.
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The Sea - John Banville: Booker? - Bah! (1118 words)
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I always like to take appropriate reading matter with me when going on holiday, when I knew I’d go to the Algarve in Portugal I browsed through Amazon and found the novel The Sea by John Banville, I thought it was just perfect for some days on the beach. I have to add that I knew nothing about the author or the book, I did not know that Banville (born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945) won the Man Booker Prize with this novel in 2005, but when I discovered this news in the blurbs I was happy to have ordered a good book indeed. But was it a good book? I’ve also learnt from the blurbs that Banville is famous for his poetic language, Seamus Heaney, winner ... Read the complete review
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