Claire B. (clairebelle) reviewed on 7/21/2014 + 63 more book reviews

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This short 195 page book won the Man Booker Prize. I don't know what qualifications are required for this. This is the story of a middle aged man who loses his wife to cancer. He goes back to the sea where his family used to vacation and reminisces about a special family who also used to come. It is a slow moving story and rather sad. I only finished it because it was short. I ordered this book because the author (John Banville) also writes a wonderful mystery series in the name of Benjamin Black.

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