The Blue Guitar

Informationen zum Autor John Banville was born in Wexford! Ireland! in 1945. He is the author of fifteen previous novels including The Sea! which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize! in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature! and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award! Spain's most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin. Klappentext Oliver Orme used to be a painter! well known and well rewarded! but the muse has deserted him. He is also! as he confesses! a petty thief; he does not steal for gain! but for the thrill of it. HIs worst theft is Polly! the wife of his friend Marcus! with whom he has had an affair. When the affair is discovered! Oliver hides himself away in his childhood home. From here he tells the story of a year! from one autumn to the next. Many surprises and shocks await him! and by the end of his story! he will be forced to face himself and seek a road towards redemption.

Product details

• Authors: John Banville
• Publisher: Viking
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2015
• EAN: 9780241004333
• ISBN: 978-0-241-00433-3
• No. of pages: 249
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 233 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Viking
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Irische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)