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Selections are drawn from all of his novels, up to and. It centres on the figure of max morden, a widower whose wife has recently died. He has been the recipient of the james tait black memorial prize 1976, the guardian fiction prize 1981, the guinness peat aviation book award 1989, and the lannan literary award for fictio. When art historian max morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Yeats and henry james are the two real influences on his work. Read the sea by john banville available from rakuten kobo. In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, john banville introduces us to max morden, a middleaged irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. Adam phillips is a psychoanalyst and essayist, whose books include houdinis box, missing out, and one way and another. He is known for dark humour and a precise, forensiclike style that is dense and thick like poetry. William john banville was born in wexford, ireland, in 1945, the youngest of three siblings. John banville, pseudonym benjamin black, born december 8, 1945, wexford, ireland, irish novelist and journalist whose fiction is known for being referential, paradoxical, and complex. After college john worked as a clerk for irelands national airline, aer lingus, before joining the irish press as a subeditor in 1969. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 220 pages and is available in paperback format. The author, john banville, prefers words to people and there was little warmth in the book.
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Freddie montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a mediterranean island. William john banville born 8 december 1945 is an irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Banvilles thirteenth novel, the sea, won the booker prize in 2005. The group felt no particular liking for any character, they seemed secondary to the language structure.
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