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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Abacus
- Paperback Jun 3, 2014 | 9780349139630 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Jan 30, 2024 | 9780349146263 | RRP $55.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Oct 22, 2013 | 9781405529518 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 22, 2013 | 9781405529525 | RRP $46.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown
- Paperback Jun 3, 2014 | 9780349139630 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Jan 30, 2024 | 9780349146263 | RRP $55.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Oct 22, 2013 | 9781405529518 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 22, 2013 | 9781405529525 | RRP $46.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Jun 3, 2014 | 9780349139630 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Jan 30, 2024 | 9780349146263 | RRP $55.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Oct 22, 2013 | 9781405529518 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Oct 22, 2013 | 9781405529525 | RRP $46.99 Buy Now
"An astonishing achievement . . . if anyone has lost their love of storytelling, THE GOLDFINCH will most certainly return it to them." The Guardian
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.
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Praise for The Goldfinch
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A glorious novel that pulls together all her remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading - New York Times - Michiko Kakutani
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The Goldfinch is a triumph . . . Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction - New York Times - Stephen King
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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 - Guardian
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A modern epic and an old-fashioned pilgrimage...Dickens with guns, Dostoevsky with pills, Tolstoy with antiques. And if it doesn't gain Tartt entry to the mostly boys' club that is The Great American Novel, to drink with life-members John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth et al, then we should close down the joint and open up another for the Great Global Novel - for that is what this is - The Times - Alex O'Connell
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A glorious novel that pulls together all her remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading - New York Times - Michiko Kakutani
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The Goldfinch is a triumph . . . Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction - New York Times - Stephen King
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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 - Guardian
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A modern epic and an old-fashioned pilgrimage...Dickens with guns, Dostoevsky with pills, Tolstoy with antiques. And if it doesn't gain Tartt entry to the mostly boys' club that is The Great American Novel, to drink with life-members John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth et al, then we should close down the joint and open up another for the Great Global Novel - for that is what this is - The Times - Alex O'Connell
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American author 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.
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