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The Goldfinch Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch By Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt


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Summary

Theo Decker is thirteen years old and lives with his kind and devoted mother. His father is wild, irresponsible, and for the most part, absent. When Theo survives a terrorist bombing in an art gallery where his mother is killed, his life is torn apart. He is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend, though is unable to get over the death of his mother. As the years pass by, he becomes attached to a small painting that he took from the gallery that day, which so painfully reminds him of her.

The Goldfinch Summary

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

However, the painting is more than just a symbol of his longing for his mother and draws him into danger. As he continues to grow into a young man, Theo learns to live a sort of double existence between the high life of the rich, and the dirty, dusty antique store where he works. As he continues to walk this line, he is drawn deeper and deeper into a criminal underworld.
The Goldfinch is a stunning, suspenseful novel full of compelling characters, and themes of love, obsession, and fate. The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014.
You should read this book if…
  • You enjoy compelling contemporary stories with a rich cast of characters
  • You love a flawed protagonist who is constantly battling to survive
  • You enjoy stories where the influence of both fate and character come into question

The Goldfinch Reviews

A glorious novel that pulls together all her remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading * Michiko Kakutani, New York Times *
The Goldfinch is a triumph . . . Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction * Stephen King *
An astonishing achievement . . . if anyone has lost their love of storytelling, The Goldfinch will most certainly return it to them * Guardian *
A modern epic and an old-fashioned pilgrimage... Dickens with guns, Dostoevsky with pills, Tolstoy with antiques. And if it doesn't gain Tartt entry to the mostly boys' club that is The Great American Novel, to drink with life-members John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth et al, then we should close down the joint and open up another for the Great Global Novel - for that is what this is * The Times *
A soaring masterpiece * Ron Charles, Washington Post *
The Goldfinch is a book about art in all its forms, and right from the start we remember why we enjoy Donna Tartt so much: the humming plot and elegant prose; the living, breathing characters; the perfectly captured settings....Joy and sorrow exist in the same breath, and by the end The Goldfinch hangs in our stolen heart * Vanity Fair *
A glorious novel that pulls together all her remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *
The Goldfinch is a triumph . . . Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction -- Stephen King * New York Times *
An astonishing achievement . . . if anyone has lost their love of storytelling, The Goldfinch will most certainly return it to them. The last few pages of the novel take all the serious, big, complicated ideas beneath the surface and hold them up to the light * Guardian *
A modern epic and an old-fashioned pilgrimage...Dickens with guns, Dostoevsky with pills, Tolstoy with antiques. And if it doesn't gain Tartt entry to the mostly boys' club that is The Great American Novel, to drink with life-members John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth et al, then we should close down the joint and open up another for the Great Global Novel - for that is what this is -- Alex O'Connell * The Times *

About Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages.

Additional information

GOR005864082
9780349139630
0349139636
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
2014-06-05
880
Winner of Pulitzer Prize 2014 (UK) Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2014 (UK) Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 (UK)
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