The goldfinch

Summary: "The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America, and a drama of almost unbearable acuity and power. It is a story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the enormous power of art"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781405529518
ISBN: 0316055441
ISBN: 9780316055444
ISBN: 0349139636
ISBN: 9780349139630
ISBN: 1408704943
ISBN: 9781408704943
ISBN: 1408704951
ISBN: 9781408704950
ISBN: 0316242373
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ISBN: 0316239879
ISBN: 9780316239875
ISBN: 0316258822
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ISBN: 0316055433
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Physical Description: 771 pages ; 25 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Boy with a skull -- the anatomy lesson -- park avenue -- morphine lollipop -- badr al-dine -- wind, sand and stars -- the-shop-behind-the-shop -- the-shop-behind-the-shop, continued -- everything of possibility -- the idiot -- the gentleman's canal -- the rendezvous point.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 6.6 49 SD Quiz 165262 English fiction. Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.6 49 165262.
Awards Note:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2014