The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch

Tartt, Donna

Editorial Little&Brown
Fecha de edición octubre 2013 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9781408704950
784 páginas
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Resumen del libro

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld.

As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power.

"It's my happy duty to tell you that in this case, all doubts and suspicions can be laid aside. The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind. I read it with that mixture of terror and excitement I feel watching a pitcher carry a no-hitter into the late innings. You keep waiting for the wheels to fall off, but in the case of The Goldfinch, they never do." Stephen King

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Donna Tartt x{0026}lt;/B nació en 1963 en Greenwood, Mississippi, y se educó en el Benington College y la Universidad de Mississippi. Voraz lectora, domina el latín, el griego y el francés. Puede citar de memoria a Santo Tomás, Platón, Buda, Dante, Proust, Poe, Salinger y a su mayor ídolo, T. S. Eliot.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P En 1992 se dio a conocer con x{0026}lt;I El secretox{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014), unánimemente celebrada por la crítica, a la que siguieron x{0026}lt;I Un juego de niñosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014) y la aclamada x{0026}lt;I El jilguero x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014), ganadora del National Book Critics Circle Award en 2013 y del Premio Pulitzer a la mejor obra de ficción en 2014. Ha escrito, además, cuatro relatos cortos y tres obras de no ficción.x{0026}lt;/P





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