The blue guitar A novel.

John Banville, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, now gives us a new novel-at once trenchant, witty, and shattering-about the intricacies of artistic creation, about theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme ("O O O. An absurdity. You could hang me over the door of a pawnshop"),...