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The blue guitar / John Banville.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF BANV	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .
AF BANV	Adult Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780241004333 (pbk.)
ISBN	0241004330 (pbk.)
Name	Banville, John author.
Title	The blue guitar / John Banville.
Published	[Melbourne, Vic.] Viking an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015.
Description	249 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary	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 thief; he does not steal for gain, but for the thrill of possession, the need to capture and fix the world around him. 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 and from here he tells the story of a year, from one autumn to the next. In his dazzling delineation of Oliver, John Banville has created one of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: compelling yet weak, desperate for love and yet inclined towards acts of terrible mischief. Set in a reimagined Ireland that is both familiar and deeply unsettling, The Blue Guitar reveals a life haunted by the desire to possess and always aware of the frailty of the human heart.
Subjects	Painters -- Fiction
	Adultery -- Fiction
	Men -- Fiction
	Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Adultery -- Fiction . Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction . Men -- Fiction . Painters -- Fiction . Authors: Banville, John .