The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) (Large Print / Hardcover)

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The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) (Large Print / Hardcover)

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My favorite book of 2013!  Expansive, coming of age novel engrossed, enraptured and rewarded me, both intellectually and emotionally.  Her intellectual range…no surprise!  But who would have thought Donna Tartt would grow a heart – highly recommended.

 

 

 

— Francesca at Books Inc. in Laurel Village

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 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 is an American writer who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. Her first novel, The Secret History, was published in 1992. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel, The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch.

Product Details ISBN: 9780316239875
ISBN-10: 0316239879
Large Print: Yes
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date: October 22nd, 2013
Pages: 1248
Language: English