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The Blue Guitar Condition:Well Read Gordon Mathews' intimate portrayal ofFrom 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