Early in this novel, its narrator blames “polyglot fate” for a doctor being named Todd, and dubs a woman’s tumor “big baby De’Ath.” While hospitalized, that woman from this novel is chastised for taking grotesque photographs of other patients, like a hydrocephalic baby and a woman with a prolapsed womb. This novel’s narrator gives the line “The cafe. In the cafe. In the cafe we,” after describing a “[transferral] of affections” away from a woman with whom he played hide and seek on a beach. In this novel, a (*) “strange tide” kills a girl and her mute, web-toed twin brother after they run into the ocean. While staying at the Cedars with the Colonel and Miss Vavasour, this novel’s narrator reminisces about his childhood romance with Chloe Grace. This Booker-winning novel has been published in a volume with The Book of Evidence. For 10 points, name this novel about Max Morden by John Banville. ■END■
ANSWER: The Sea
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