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The Goldfinch is told in retrospective first-person narration by Theodore "Theo" Decker. As a thirteen-year-old boy, Theo's life is turned upside down when he and his mother visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibition of Dutch masterpieces, including a favorite painting of hers, Carel Fabritius's The Goldfinch. There, he becomes ...
The book's cover is itself a trompe l'oeil, the painting visible through an illusionary tear in the paper. In reality, the painting has never been displayed in the Metropolitan Museum, although coincidentally an exhibition including The Goldfinch opened at New York's Frick Collection on the day of the novel's publication.
His initial goal was to make the 10,000 most consulted books available to the public at little or no charge by the end of the 20th century. [7] On July 4, 1971, after being inspired by a free printed copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, he decided to type the text into a computer, and to transmit it to other users on the computer network.
Tartt's three novels in German, published by Goldmann.. Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) [2] is an American novelist and essayist. She wrote the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013), which was adapted into a 2019 film of the same name. [3]
The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [1] The most popular books of the year were The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt and Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn with 4 weeks at the top.
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The Goldfinch is a 2019 American drama film directed by John Crowley.It was written by Peter Straughan, who adapted the 2013 novel The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.It stars Ansel Elgort as Theodore Decker, whose life changes after his mother dies in a terrorist bombing at a museum and a dying man convinces him to take a famous painting called The Goldfinch from the museum.