The Goldfinch / Donna Tartt.
Material type: TextEdition: First editionDescription: 771 pages ; 25 cmISBN: 9780316055437; 0316055433; 9780316258821; 0316258822; 9780316239875; 0316239879; 9780316242370; 0316242373Subject(s): Young men -- Fiction | Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction | Artists -- Fiction | Self-realization -- Fiction | Young men -- Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Suspense fiction. | Bildungsromans. | Fiction. | Fictional autobiographies. | Novels. | Bildungsromans, American. | Bildungsromans, American. LOC classification: PS3570.A657 | G65 2013Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library | FIC/TAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 06/18/2022 | 39844500060480 |
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Boy with a skull -- the anatomy lesson -- park avenue -- morphine lollipop -- badr al-dine -- wind, sand and stars -- the-shop-behind-the-shop -- the-shop-behind-the-shop, continued -- everything of possibility -- the idiot -- the gentleman's canal -- the rendezvous point.
"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"--
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