Name: The Goldfinch
SKU: 34489321
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Author: Tartt, Donna
ISBN: 9780316055437

Type

Physical Book

Author

Donna Tartt

Publisher

Little Brown and Company

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

784

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.9x16.3x4.6 cm

Weight

1.09 kg.

ISBN13

9780316055437

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Goldfinch "

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner from the author of The Secret History that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review). Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love -- and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles, Washington Post).

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt was born in 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and was educated at Benington College and the University of Mississippi. A voracious reader, she is fluent in Latin, Greek, and French. She can quote from memory Saint Thomas, Plato, Buddha, Dante, Proust, Poe, Salinger, and her greatest idol, T. S. Eliot.

In 1992, she made her debut with The Secret (Lumen, 2014), unanimously celebrated by critics, followed by A Children's Game (Lumen, 2014) and the acclaimed The Goldfinch (Lumen, 2014), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2013 and the Pulitzer Prize for Best Fiction in 2014. She has also written four short stories and three non-fiction works.

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