Tartt , Donna

The goldfinch / By Donna Tartt - First published in Great Britain in 2013 - London : Abacus / Little, Brown Book Group , 2013 . - 864 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm .

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.

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Pulitzer Prize--Fiction

PS3570 .A657 .G65

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