Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014.

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend.

He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld.

As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.

Details

• Format : Thick 2nd Hand Paperback
• Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
• Category : Fiction - Families & Sagas
• Published : 2013 (This Edition 2014 - Abacus)
• ISBN : 9780349139630
• SKU : B002132
• PPC : SP500gm
• RRP : £9.99
• Quantity Available : 1 only.

External Reviews

"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." - The Guardian.

"The Great Global Novel" - The Times.

". . . And then sometimes there is a book that is more like a red hot fucking coal, a thrum nearly audible whenever I'm close to it, a magnetic pull that stops me doing anything else and zings me back so strongly that I just want to bury myself in its tinnitus at all times - five minutes in line a the bank, two minutes in the elevator, thirty seconds while my coffee date checks her email - gorging myself with sentences and paragraphs until the whole world recedes and shrivels into flat black-and-white nothing. This, this, this is one of those books." - Goodreads Review.

The Author

Donna Louise Tartt is an American author. Tartt's novels are The Secret History, The Little Friend, and The Goldfinch. Tartt won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch in 2014.

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