THE SEA By John Banville Knopf. 195 pp. $23 "Everything for me is something else," thinks Max, the narrator of John Banville's new Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sea . He is remembering the details of a bath painting by Pierre Bonnard. A Bonnard expert in a dilettantish way, he is wondering if the... -
Art and Ardor
THE SEA By John Banville Knopf. 195 pp. $23 "Everything for me is something else," thinks Max, the narrator of John Banville's new Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sea . He is remembering the details of a bath painting by Pierre Bonnard. A Bonnard expert in a dilettantish way, he is wondering if the...-
Reviewed by John Crowley