The Blue Guitar
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  • Published: 3 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241975343
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99

The Blue Guitar

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3 Sep 2015
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3 Sep 2015
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15 Aug 2016
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From one of the world's greatest writers comes a story of theft and adultery

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Blue Guitar by John Banville, read by Gerry O'Brien.

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.
  • Published: 3 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241975343
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

John Banville

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books are Nightspawn; Birchwood; Doctor Copernicus, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976; Kepler, which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1981; The Newton Letter, which was filmed for Channel 4; Mefisto and The Book of Evidence, which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize and won the 1989 Guinness Peat Aviation Award. John Banville is literary editor of the Irish Times and lives in London with his wife and two sons.

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Praise for The Blue Guitar

Everything I want from a love story: sexy, convincing, baffling, funny, sad and unforgettable

Evening Standard, Books of the Year, on 'Ancient Light'

Banville's exquisitely written novel unravels the deceptions of memory with wit and pathos

Telegraph, on 'Ancient Light'

Glittering visual evocation, expressed in a tone at once fresh and wistfully ironic. A world at once random, dreamlike and deeply experienced

Sunday Times, on 'Ancient Light'

Illuminating, funny, devastating. A meditation of breathtaking beauty and profundity on love and loss and death

Financial Times, on 'Ancient Light'
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