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The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

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Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, 13-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue.

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28 weeks on NPR Paperback Fiction Bestseller List

71 weeks on NPR Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List

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Need A Read? Here Are Maureen Corrigan's Favorite Books Of 2013

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Need A Read? Here Are Maureen Corrigan's Favorite Books Of 2013

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Fresh Air's book critic says it's just a fluke that 9 of the 11 titles she picked this year were written by female authors. Her favorites include a jumbo-sized Dickensian novel, a biography of Ben Franklin's sister, a comedy of manners, a stunning Scandinavian mystery and more.

Need A Read? Here Are Maureen Corrigan's Favorite Books Of 2013

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Dickensian Ambition And Emotion Make 'Goldfinch' Worth The Wait

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Dickensian Ambition And Emotion Make 'Goldfinch' Worth The Wait

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Donna Tartt is a writer who takes her time — she's published just one novel per decade since her debut in 1992. But critic Maureen Corrigan says she'd gladly wait another 10 years for a book as extraordinary as Tartt's latest work, The Goldfinch, an "exuberantly plotted triumph."

Dickensian Ambition And Emotion Make 'Goldfinch' Worth The Wait

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More Is More In Donna Tartt's Believable, Behemoth 'Goldfinch'
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More Is More In Donna Tartt's Believable, Behemoth 'Goldfinch'

The author of The Secret History returns with a novel about art, love and loss that's drawn comparisons to Oliver Twist and the Harry Potter series. Reviewer Meg Wolitzer says The Goldfinch marks a departure from Tartt's previous work, but it's a rich, absorbing read — all 771 pages of it.

More Is More In Donna Tartt's Believable, Behemoth 'Goldfinch'

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What's Really Priceless? Art, Money And Fate In Tartt's 'Goldfinch'

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What's Really Priceless? Art, Money And Fate In Tartt's 'Goldfinch'

Donna Tartt's new novel The Goldfinch follows a motherless boy and a priceless painting in the aftermath of a terror attack. It's only her third novel in 21 years. Tartt tells NPR's Scott Simon that she started thinking about art, money and fate after stumbling across an art exhibition in a Las Vegas casino.

What's Really Priceless? Art, Money And Fate In Tartt's 'Goldfinch'

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