| Note |
Subtitle from cover. |
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"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
| NOTE |
Originally published: Great Britain : Picador, London, 2005. |
| Awards |
Winner of the Man Booker prize in 2005. |
| Summary |
"The 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. Interwoven 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."" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Authors -- Fiction.
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Widowers -- Fiction.
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Seaside resorts -- Fiction.
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Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
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Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Psychological fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780307263117
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0307263118
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| STANDARD # |
9780307263117 |
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