{"product_id":"the-sea-john-banville-1st-edition-picador-2005","title":"The Sea – John Banville (1st Edition, Picador, 2005)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Picador first edition (2005) of John Banville's \u003cem\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/em\u003e is of interest to collectors of John Banville, Man Booker Prize winners, and first editions of contemporary Irish fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout: \u003c\/strong\u003eA near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The jacket carries the beautiful atmospheric seascape design - pale blues and greys fading to a dark horizon - and is bright and clean with only light wear to the spine ends and a small bump to the top right corner of the front board. The interior is crisp and entirely unmarked throughout. A very well-preserved copy of the first edition of Banville's Booker Prize-winning novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTitle: The Sea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor: John Banville\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublication Date: 2005\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEdition: First Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAward: Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2005\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDedication: To Colm, Douglas, Ellen, Alice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: Near Fine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDust Jacket Condition: Near Fine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis:\u003c\/strong\u003e Picador first edition of Banville's Man Booker Prize-winning novel - a luminous, elegiac meditation on memory, grief, and the past, set against the backdrop of an Irish seaside town. One of the most celebrated Irish novels of the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview: \u003c\/strong\u003eJohn Banville's \u003cem\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/em\u003e won the Man Booker Prize in 2005, confirming his status as one of the great prose stylists in the English language. The novel follows Max Morden, a recently widowed art historian who returns to the seaside village of his childhood, where memories of a long-ago summer - and a family who changed his life - begin to surface. Banville's prose is precise, sensuous, and deeply melancholic, and \u003cem\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/em\u003e is widely regarded as his masterpiece. Praised by \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e, Don DeLillo, the \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eSpectator\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55575412605268,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/5972\/1556\/files\/the-sea-john-banville-1600x1600-0604.jpg?v=1776526868","url":"https:\/\/www.alexanderdavidfinebooks.co.uk\/products\/the-sea-john-banville-1st-edition-picador-2005","provider":"Alexander David Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}