A vanity publisher flees gangland creditors
before her own number is up
he creates a brilliantly compelling
as part of a major commentary on Marcus Aurelius' work
a young mother in suburban Indiana whose marriage has lost its passion
The Sea, John Banville writing A vanity publisher flees ganglandThe author of The Untouchable (contemporary fiction gets no better than thisPatrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory. The narrator is Max Morden, a middle aged Irishman who, soon after his wifes death, has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a childa retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness of his life without her. But it is