The Goldfinch
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In a coming-of-age story often compared to the works of Charles Dickens, Donna Tartt portrays the journey of Theo Decker after a museum explosion leaves him motherless and in illicit possession of Carel Fabritius’s priceless painting, also titled “The Goldfinch.” Tartt’s novel follows Theo across the USA, and then across the world, through tumultuous relationships and a life on the precipice of criminal exposure, navigating the tribulations of adolescence and adulthood as a complex balance of fair consequence and ineffable tragedy. Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Goldfinch is commended and criticized for its realist style and control over the reader’s experience, balancing the simultaneously bleak and hopeful sentiment that life just goes on. In 2019, the novel—the third of her career—was also adapted for film.
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2013
What the Bird Saw / "The Goldfinch"
The Goldfinch