by John Banville · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241004333
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«The Blue Guitar» is John Banville's literary fiction novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Oliver Orme, a renowned painter who has lost his inspiration, confesses to being a thief: he steals for the pleasure of possession, not out of necessity. His worst theft is Polly, wife of his friend Marcus. When the affair is discovered, he retreats to his childhood home and narrates a year of his life; the novel explores the desire for possession and the fragility of the human heart.
Originally published in 2015, the novel was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award in 2017; John Banville won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and fans of John Banville, interested in novels about art, memory, and human relationships.
William John Banville is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. A former member of Aosdána, he voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.
