JOHN BANVILLE reads from his novel The Sea
Harvard Book Store is delighted to announce that on Thursday, March 30th John Banville will read from his novel The Sea, winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize. test
The Sea is a ravishingly beautiful novel about a middle-aged widower returning to the seaside town of his childhood. Here's what the critics are saying about it:
�Banville�s prose is sublime. Several times on every page the reader is arrested by a line or sentence that demands to be read again. . . . It has been said of the Irish by some English person (probably one invented by an Irishman) that we gave them a language and they taught us how to use it. This was true of Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Joyce and Beckett, and it is true, now, of Banville.��The Sunday Telegraph (London)
�Banville�s achievement seems remarkable to me. . . . The power and strangeness and piercing beauty of [the Sea�s] fragments are a wonder.��Washington Post Book World
�The Sea is a piece of violent poetry�an autumnal, elegiac novel.��The Boston Sunday Globe
�The Sea has so many beautifully constructed sentences that every few pages something cries out to be underlined.��Christian Science Monitor
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