{"product_id":"2940169177183","title":"The Sea","description":"The author of \u003ci\u003eThe Untouchable\u003c\/i\u003e (\"contemporary fiction gets no better than this\"-Patrick McGrath, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe narrator is Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon after his wife's death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child-a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her. But it is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled vacationing family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. The seductive mother; the imperious father; the twins-Chloe, fiery and forthright, and Myles, silent and expressionless-in whose mysterious connection Max became profoundly entangled, each of them a part of the \"barely bearable raw immediacy\" of his childhood memories. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterwoven with this story are Morden's memories of his wife, Anna-of their life together, of her death-and the moments, both significant and mundane, that make up his life now: his relationship with his grown daughter, Claire, desperate to pull him from his grief; and with the other boarders at the house where he is staying, where the past beats inside him \"like a second heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, vividly dramatic, beautifully written novel-among the finest we have had from this extraordinary writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104361758960,"sku":"2940169177183","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169177183_p0.jpg?v=1763674551","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169177183","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}