SEA CD

Audio Book Description:
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Mordern, a middle aged Irishman whohas gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the placewhere he met the Graces, the well heeledfamily with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comesto understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously writtennovel.