Donna Tartt
Hardcover | Pages: 771 pages Rating: 3.91 | 665471 Users | 57282 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Goldfinch |
| ISBN: | 0316055433 (ISBN13: 9780316055437) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Boris Pavlikovsky (The Goldfinch), Theo Decker, Pippa, Hobie |
| Setting: | Amsterdam(Netherlands) Las Vegas, Nevada(United States) New York City, New York(United States) …more New York City's Upper East Side(United States) …less |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2014), Audie Award for Literary Fiction (2014), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2013), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for International Book (2014), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2014) Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2013) |
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It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-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 unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.As 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.
The Goldfinch combines vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.
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| Title | : | The Goldfinch |
| Author | : | Donna Tartt |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First American Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 771 pages |
| Published | : | October 22nd 2013 by Little, Brown (first published September 23rd 2013) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.91 From 665471 Users | 57282 ReviewsWrite-Up Based On Books The Goldfinch
This was a huge disappointment for me. The opening New York sections were excellent, the description of the museum bombing and the whole Mansfield Park thing Tartt has going with Theo and the Barbour family, all of this works beautifully. I was excited to keep on reading to see where it all ended up, but once things move to Las Vegas the story takes a seriously wrong turn. I seem to be a minority opinion here, but there you have it. I do remember sitting up all night in 1992 reading The SecretAudible. OH MY GAWD! Who ARE you people giving this 5 star raves? I'm not even half way yet and I'm wondering if I will be able to weather this ridiculously long book that keeps getting sidetracked by just about every teenage pothole you can think of. And can we talk about motherless orphans? I've lost track of how many motherless main characters are in this book. How can I be this far out of touch with other reviewers?------Halfway thru now. Spending lots of energy trying to be less harsh and
Donna Tartt is one of Americas greatest living male writers. She has taken a form of novel - the doorstopper, the tome, the phonebook - and taken something away from it that is has often never been without: the penis. In this ritual castration of the opus Tartt has managed to completely free it from all its ills. DeLillo, Franzen, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, Mailer, all kneel there, bloodied and shorn like Goya etchings, John Bobbitts by any other name, weak and utterly defeated. Whilst Donna,
So listen. Look. I am a READER, right? I mean, I read all the time, everywhere, every day, a book a week. But most of the time the book I'm reading is a dull throb beneath my fingers, a soft hum behind my eyes, a lovely way to spend a bit of time in between things as I meander through my life. You know? It's something I adore, but softly, passively, and often forgetfullyvery nice while it's happening, but flitting away quickly after I'm on to the next.And then sometimes there is a book that is
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Congratulations, Ms. Tartt on such a stunning return. The Goldfinch is a doorstopper, weighing in at over 700 densely written pages. Yet, I found myself tearing through it as if I couldn't read it fast enough. I don't know what the secret is to Ms. Tartt's prose, but I dig it. I dig it a lot. Maybe it's due to sheer deprivation (absence making the heart grow fonder and all that jazz), because this lady, while her talent goes undisputed, has only
Pithy and irrelevant quote from philosopher to make this review sound important. Bobby McFerrinLong out-of-context passage from the novel in italics unrelated to the stuff I am about to discuss in the review that sort of hangs there seeking an explanation and that also sounds somewhat profound and rubs off some cred on me for picking out such a seemingly perfect and deep-sounding line to whet your appetite even though you have probably skimmed the whole thing because you fail to see the
reading this book is the very definition of being a labour of love. this story expects a lot from you. it requires attention, demands emotion, requests a sacrifice of time, asks for unconditional patience, and begs for your heart. but you keep turning the page, you keep coming back to theo and his story, because you know that your efforts, no matter how trying, will be worthwhile. and it isnt until that last paragraph, you know the one im talking about, the last sentence that just bleeds love
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