The goldfinch /
Tartt, Donna.
The goldfinch / Donna Tartt. - First Edition. - 771 pages ; 25 cm
"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"--
9780316055437 (hardback) 9780316055437 (large print) 9780316242370 (international)
2013028907
Young men--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Artists--Fiction.
Self-realization--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Bildungstromans.
Suspense fiction.
PS3570.A657 / G65 2013
813/.54
The goldfinch / Donna Tartt. - First Edition. - 771 pages ; 25 cm
"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"--
9780316055437 (hardback) 9780316055437 (large print) 9780316242370 (international)
2013028907
Young men--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Artists--Fiction.
Self-realization--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Bildungstromans.
Suspense fiction.
PS3570.A657 / G65 2013
813/.54