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Rent The Sea
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Aug 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 208
Synopsis
Max Morden is an aging art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. In his grief, he takes a trip to the seaside, to the "rubble of the past," where he and his family spent holidays as a child. Here grief and memory coincide as he ponders not only his wife’s death, but the drowning of two childhood friends, and, in the end, he finds that memory has the power to redeem him. THE SEA won the Mann Booker Prize in 2005.
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Reviews
The words just flowed in this novel. The author paints such complete pictures that the reader feels as though he were there. It depicted mans desire to be better than he is, and the pain that sometimes exacts.
Seemed to me an effort by the author to let everyone know how large a vocabulary he had. I tried to read this for two weeks and could not keep past, present and futures seperated and gave up on knowing the meaning of the many, many large and unnecessary words he uses to impress someone. I was not impressed! DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS!