{"product_id":"the-sea-vintage-international","title":"The Sea (Vintage International)","description":"BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory\" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife.\n\nIn this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has 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 place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time.\n\nWhat Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel—among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1400097029\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1400097029.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Banville, John\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43185557176381,"sku":"BVV.1400097029.A","price":5.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1400097029-0_4db527e0-8e61-4196-9220-5d0af5b355f0.jpg?v=1778794574","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-sea-vintage-international","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}