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Alan Bray
Sep 9, 20214 min read
I'm Hiding
The Sea is the story of a troubled man who, after great personal tragedy, returns obsessively to the site of an earlier tragedy and...


Alan Bray
Sep 2, 20214 min read
Haunt Me
The drowning of Chloe and Myles Grace, is alluded to mysteriously in The Sea’s first line: “They departed, the gods, on the day of the...


Alan Bray
Aug 26, 20214 min read
To Whom Am I Speaking?
A central question (not the only one) in The Sea is to whom is the narrator, Max, addressing his narration? Max’s narrative has the feel...


Alan Bray
Aug 19, 20213 min read
A Journey of Surpassing but Inexplicable Importance
The premise of The Sea is that, after the death of his wife, a man is grieving, trying to go on but struggling, not only with the loss,...


Alan Bray
Aug 12, 20214 min read
The Sea
This week, a new novel: John Banville’s The Sea, published in 2005 and the winner of that year’s Man Booker Prize. It begins: “They...