TY - GEN AU - TI - The Sea, The Sea: A Rich, Crowded, Magical Love Story PY - 1980/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books N1 - n/29163 N2 - When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demigod of the theatre - director, playwright and actor - retires from his glittering London world in order to, `abjure magic and become a hermit`, it is to the sea that he turns. He hopes at least to escape from `the women` - but unexpectedly meets one whom he loved long ago. His Buddhist cousin, James, also arrives. He is menaced by a monster from the deep. Charles finds his `solitude` peopled by the drama of his own fantasies and obsessions ER -