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The Blue Guitar: A novel Audiobook
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From the Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea comes a “beautiful, heartbreaking” novel (The Washington Post) about a painter and the intricacies of artistic creation, theft, and the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves.
Oliver Otway Orme—a man equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating—is a painter of some renown, and a petty thief who has never been caught … until now. Unfortunately, the purloined possession in question is the wife of the man who was, perhaps, his best friend. Fearing the consequences, Olly has fled—not only from his mistress, his home, and his wife, but from the very impulse to paint, and from his own demons. He sequesters himself in the house where he was born, and thus, he sets about trying to uncover the answer to how and why things have turned out as they did. A witty and trenchant novel, The Blue Guitar shows Man Booker Prize–winning author John Banville at the peak of his powers.
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About John Banville
John Banville, the author of numerous novels, has been the recipient of the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Nonino International Prize, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the Irish PEN Award, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He also writes nonfiction and plays.
About Gerry O’Brien
Gerry O’Brien is an experienced Irish actor with a familiar face. His numerous film credits include Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Lassie, King Arthur, Veronica Guerin, and The Old Curiosity Shop. He also has enjoyed an impressive array of television credits. His work may be seen in Trouble in Paradise, The Tudors, and Game of Thrones. Gerry has also worked as a professional actor on the Irish theatrical stage since 1970, and is well known internationally in the world of the audio novel, with an impressive catalog of work which has been nominated for several awards in the UK and the United States.