The Goldfinch By Donna Tartt -little Brown- ^new^ 100%

The Goldfinch is messy, beautiful, too long, and absolutely essential. It’s a book about a stolen painting that becomes a meditation on what we steal from ourselves—and what we keep.

It is messy. It is long. It is occasionally indulgent. But like the beautiful, radioactive painting at its center, The Goldfinch holds you captive. You cannot look away. And long after you close the Little, Brown hardcover, you will hear the rattle of that tiny chain. the goldfinch by donna tartt -little brown-

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Ultimately, The Goldfinch is about the chained bird—the painting of a tiny finch on a perch, trapped forever. Theo is that bird. We are all that bird, chained by our pasts, our memories of the dead, and our own bad decisions. Donna Tartt, via her meticulous publisher Little, Brown, succeeded not by writing a perfect novel, but by writing an unforgettable one. The Goldfinch is messy, beautiful, too long, and

Have you read The Goldfinch ? Love it or hate it? Let me know in the comments—just no spoilers for the last 100 pages! It is long

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by Donna Tartt is a Pulitzer Prize-winning bildungsroman centering on Theodore Decker, who clings to a stolen masterpiece following a terrorist bombing. The 800-page novel explores grief and art's power through Theo's journey from New York to Las Vegas, drawing him into the art underworld. For more information, visit Little, Brown and Company