The blue guitar

By John Banville

Subjects: Self-realization, Self-actualization (Psychology), Art thieves, Painters, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Thieves, Artists

Description: Oliver Otway Orme, a semi-famous artist and petty thief, despairing of limits in his talents, flees when his latest theft is discovered and sequesters himself in his childhood home, where he struggles to understand how he reached his current state.