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The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt.It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. [1] Published in 2013, it was Tartt's first novel since The Little Friend in 2002.
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 has been adapted into a 2019 film of the same name. [3]
The novel was originally titled The God of Illusions, [3] and its first-edition hardcover was designed by the New York City graphic designer Chip Kidd and Barbara de Wilde. [4] A 75,000 print order was made for the first edition (as opposed to the usual 10,000 order for a debut novel) and the book became a bestseller.
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.
The Goldfinch plays a central role in the 2013 eponymous novel by American author Donna Tartt. The novel's protagonist, 13-year-old Theodore "Theo" Decker, survives a terrorist bombing at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in which his mother dies. He takes the Fabritius painting, part of a Dutch Golden Age exhibition, with him as he escapes ...
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own. ”
Dean Koontz's The Book of Counted Sorrows began as a fictional book of poetry from which Koontz would "quote" when no suitable existing option was available; Koontz simply wrote all these epigraphs himself. Many fans, rather than realizing the work was Koontz' own invention, apparently believed it was a real, but rare, volume; Koontz later ...
Doerr's first book was a collection of short stories called The Shell Collector (2002). His first novel, About Grace, was released in 2004.His memoir, Four Seasons in Rome, was published in 2007, and his second collection of short stories, Memory Wall, was published in 2010.