The Sea
John Banville • 2005
Devastation Rating
grief memory Ireland death
Our Take
Max Morden returns to a seaside village where he witnessed something as a child and has been circling ever since. Banville writes grief with the precision of a malicious god — beautiful sentences doing ugly work. The revealed memory is both expected and unbearable.
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