The Sea, John Banville writing but also doing fine

but also doing fine

Petersburg Times

a young mother in suburban Indiana whose marriage has lost its passion

before her own number is up

The Sea, John Banville writing but also doing fineThe author of The Untouchable (contemporary fiction gets no better than thisPatrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. The narrator is Max Morden, a middle aged Irishman who, soon after his wifes death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a childa retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her. But it is