Description

In this luminous new book about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville presents us to Max Morden, a middle aged Irishman who went back once again to the seaside village where he spent his summer holidays as a young child to handle the recent loss of his partner. It's also a go back to where he met the Graces, the well heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the very first time. What Max involves understand about yesteryear, and about its indelible effects on him, reaches the middle of this elegiac, beautifully written book — one of the best we've had from this outstanding author.