'The Sea, The Sea' a 1978 novel about a theatre director and his childhood love, was by which authoress
The Sea, the Sea The Sea, the Sea The Sea, the Sea is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1978, it was her nineteenth novel. It won the 1978 Booker Prize. "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 her characters – the vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. Charles Arrowby, its central figure, decides to withdraw from the world and live in seclusion in a house by the sea. While
The Sea (novel) So I started to write The Sea in the third person. It was going to be very short, seventy pages or so, and solely about childhood holidays at the seaside—very bare. I worked on it for about eighteen months, but I couldn’t get it to work. And then, out of nowhere, the first-person narrative voice made itself heard again." "The Sea" was completed in September 2004. The novel won the Man Booker Prize for 2005. The selection of "The Sea" for the Booker Prize was a satisfying victory for Banville, as his novel "The Book of Evidence" was shortlisted in