The Blue GuitarBy: John Banville From the Booker Prizewinning 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 Ormea man equally self aggrandizing and self deprecatingis a painter of some renown, and a petty thief who has never been caught until now. Unfortunately, the