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The Sea
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The Sea
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Max Morden, a sixty-something year old art historian whose specialty is the work of Pierre Bonnard, has just lost his wife to abdominal cancer. In his grief, he returns to the site of a childhood summer vacation on the Irish coast. There he contemplates the trajectory of his life, an arc spanning from his first teenage relationship to his wife Anna's last days, probing the memories of his neighbours, torturing metaphors from the movement of the sea and drinking brandy -- lots of it. Max is as lost, angry and self-involved as anyone who has just seen a spouse through a year-long cancer battle might be expected to be. His recurrent contemplation of a pivotal childhood summer (including a particular event which -- for obvious reasons -- imprinted deeply on his psyche) provides some relief from his feelings of anger towards his wife, but ultimately the conundrum raised by each event is the same: how to survive loss, how to reconcile it with the reality of living in the aftermath. The Sea is a simple and beautifully written story, full of vividly portrayed characters with interesting shadow sides. I wouldn't have picked it for the Booker myself, but I enjoyed reading it very much. You can read reviews of The Sea in The Guardian here, the Telegraph here. (Top left: "Carafe, Marthe Bonnard with Her Dog", Pierre Bonnard, 1912 - 1915.) |
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Released 4 yrs ago (3/21/2007 UTC) at Mangez Mangez coffeeshop in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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