The Sea
John Banville • 2005
Devastation Rating
grief loss literary fiction philosophical
Our Take
A widower returns to the seaside town where something terrible happened in his childhood, and Banville makes the two griefs talk to each other across decades with prose of such density it reads like lacquer. The reveal is quiet and total. A novel about loss that does not distinguish between kinds.
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