Maine Irish Reads “The Sea” by John Banville

Schedule

Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04102 | Portland, ME

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Maine Irish Reads, our monthly book club, meets every second Thursday here at the Center!
From 7:30 – 9 PM in the MIHC Library. Bring a friend. The more, the merrier.
About this month’s book:
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory” (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife.
In this luminous novel, 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.
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34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04102

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Maine Irish Heritage Center

Host or Publisher Maine Irish Heritage Center

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