He called The Sea, about a man who confronts his past in a town where he spent a childhood holiday, "a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected".

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Even as the memory of her fades, says Goldfarb, she still inspires a lot of love and admiration.

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He has always spoken of his relationship with school-friend Jimmy Trimble as the love of his life a love, moreover, that has remained untarnished in the writer's memory, as Trimble was killed on Iwo Jima in March 1945.

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