The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) - Softcover

Tartt, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316286397 ISBN 13: 9780316286398

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2014

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE\n\n"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\n\nTheo 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 his 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 the underworld of art.\n\nAs 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.\n\nThe 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, and the ruthless machinations of fate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0316286397
• ISBN 13: 9780316286398
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 976