The Blue Guitar

by John Banville

Book Overview

John Banville, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, now gives us a new novel--at once trenchant, witty, and shattering--about the intricacies of artistic creation, about theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme ("O O O. An absurdity. You could hang me over the door of a pawnshop"), is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385354266
• ISBN13: 9780385354264
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.5"