# The Blue Guitar

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- Authors: [John Banville](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-banville)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-09-03

## Description

Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. But we were happy together, simply happy. Oliver Orme is a painter who has abandoned his art. His days are now haunted by loss: loss of desire; of artistic vision; of the people he has loved. And only now does he realize that those around him understand him more than he does himself. Set in a re-imagined Ireland, The Blue Guitar reveals a life haunted by the desire to possess and always aware of the frailty of the human heart.

## Editions

### The Blue Guitar

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-08-0417-361-2
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2016-08-09
- Language: en_US

### The Blue Guitar

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-001-0
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2016-06-30
- Language: en_GB

### The Blue Guitar

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 9 h 27 min
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-534-3
- Published: 2015-09-03
- Language: en_GB

### The Blue Guitar

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-002-7
- Published: 2015-09-03
- Language: en_GB