1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a collection of books compiled by over one hundred literary critics worldwide and published in a book. On this site you can view all of these books, a synopsis of the vast majority of them, and also purchase those books you wish to read.
1001 Best Books - Book 6 
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In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel — among the finest we have had from this masterful writer. |