Review: The Blue Guitar John Banville Vintage Books 2015 It’s pretty brazen of me to write any sort of review for an accomplished author, but I had to because some of the reviews for this book confuse me. For me this author portrayed so many of the people I know right this minute, young and old. They live the good life until it craters and then wonder how they ended up in the mess they find themselves. Maybe the objections to the protagonist have something to do with looking into the mirror? Others think another of his books has a better plot. That may be the case for that other book, but is this book designed to have anything like the other? It doesn’t seem that way to me. Whatever the case may be I liked this book for a number of reasons, not the least of which is Banville’s writing itself. I found it a joy to read and intend to re-read it in the near future. Yes, Orme drifts into painterly type la...