The goldfinch / Donna Tartt.
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TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Large print editionDescription: 1240 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316239875; 0316239879Subject(s): Young men -- Fiction | Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction | Artists -- Fiction | Self-realization -- Fiction | Large type books | New York (N.Y.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Bildungsromans. | Suspense fiction.Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2014Summary: "The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America, and a drama of almost unbearable acuity and power. It is a story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the enormous power of art"-- Provided by publisher.
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"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America, and a drama of almost unbearable acuity and power. It is a story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the enormous power of art"-- Provided by publisher.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2014
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