SEVERAL OF John Banville’s previous novels have been about disillusioned men reviewing their failed lives and wondering about what might have been. Like most of his other damaged heroes, the narrator of The Blue Guitar is typically cantankerous and constantly at odds with the world around him. The novelist’s latest work has attracted mixed reviews,… Read more »
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