Goldfinch

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Donna Tartt: Goldfinch (2013, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

English language

Published Dec. 26, 2013 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4087-0494-3
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"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review

Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.

It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-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 his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, coming of age
  • New york (n.y.), fiction
  • Artists, fiction
  • Fiction, psychological

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