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The Sea is the story of a troubled man who, after great personal tragedy, returns obsessively to the site of an earlier tragedy and...

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...

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...

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,...

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...