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By the Sea is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It was first published in the United States by The New Press on 11 June 2001 [1] and in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing in May 2001. [2] It is Gurnah's sixth novel. [3] By the Sea was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. [4]
Lorcan Furey – Rescues Grace in the first book of the series after seeing her struggling for life. Vampirate Captain – Mysterious captain of the Vampirate ship, whose authority has been questioned by his crew. Darcy Flotsam – Figurehead of the Vampirate ship by day and vampire by night; Grace's friend.
The Sea, The Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs.Murdoch's novel exposes the motivations that drive his character – the vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world.
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The magazine's critical summary reads: "In his Booker-winning novel, Banville’s language is captivating". [5] Globally, Complete Review noted a lack of consensus, summarizing that "with opinions tending toward the extremes". [6] The poet Michael Longley expressed admiration for The Sea, and described Banville as "a wonderful writer". [7]
The Sea and Summer is the sort of novel you finish in a night, although it's 318 pages long, and then go looking for more of Turner's books...The Sea and Summer is a novel for people who like thinking about the future and that's why Australians won't like it. Every element in Turner's future can be seen coming into existence: the Greenhouse ...
Wu Jianren claimed that he dashed off his 1906 novel in ten days. It became one of the most famous novels of the period. Patrick Hanan explains that Sea of Regret was Wu’s response to Stones in the Sea, a novel published a few months earlier, under the pseudonym Fu Lin. Stones in the Sea is narrated by the hero of a tragic love affair to dramatize the conflict between the traditional Chinese ...
Night Over Water is a fictionalized account of the final flight of the Pan American Clipper passenger airplane during the first few days of World War II, early September, 1939. Follett is careful to state that, though the flight and all of the characters are fictional the plane, a Boeing 314 , was real and was nicknamed the "Pan Am Clipper."