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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 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 highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author.
The Goldfinch (1654), by Carel Fabritius; The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt, in which Fabritius' painting features The Goldfinch (2019), based on the novel; Distelfink, a goldfinch motif in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art
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.
The Secret History is the first novel by the American author Donna Tartt, published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 1992. The campus novel tells the story of a closely knit group of six classics students at Hampden College, a small, elite liberal arts college in Vermont.
Judith Heneghan (born 11 May 1965) [1] is a British author of books for children and adults, and a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Winchester, England. Biography [ edit ]