# The Blue Guitar

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- Book: [The Blue Guitar](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-banville/the-blue-guitar) ([The Blue Guitar.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-banville/the-blue-guitar.md))
- Authors: [John Banville](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-banville)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-001-0
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2016-06-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.