The Sea (22 page)
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, AUGUST 2006
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2005 by John Banville
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Banville, John.
The sea / John Banville. —1st American ed.
p. cm.
1. Authors—Fiction. 2. Widowers—Fiction. 3. Seaside resorts—Fiction.
4. Middle-aged men—Fiction. 5. Loss (Psychology)—Fiction.
6. England—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6052.A57S43 2006
813’.54—dc22 2005050418
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