The Blue Guitar Condition:Well Read addresses media and marketplace concerns

addresses media and marketplace concerns about the state of language and the value of books in the digital age

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The Blue Guitar Condition:Well Read addresses media and marketplace concernsFrom the Man Booker Prize winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, a new novel at once trenchant, witty, and shattering about the intricacies of artistic creation and 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, is a painter of some renown, and a petty thief who does not steal for profit and has never before been