![]() As he grieves, he focuses on a small picture of a bird – Dutch artist Carel Fabritius's 17th century painting – which reminds him of her. Tartt writes about how, following the death of his mother in a terrorist bombing, teenager Theo is taken in by the family of a rich friend, and how. While the New York Times described it as "a novel that pulls together all remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading", in the UK, the Sunday Times found that "no amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey". ![]() "Wouldn't you be surprised?" replied the author, who also told USA Today that the reason it took her 11 years to finish The Goldfinch was because "it's a long book".Īlso shortlisted for the Baileys prize for women's fiction, The Goldfinch has drawn mixed reviews. ![]() She told USA Today that she was "very happy and very delighted" to win the award – her first major literary prize – and also "surprised". It is the American author's third novel, after her bestselling debut The Secret History, and 2002's The Little Friend. ![]() Tartt's win of the $100,000 (£60,000) award puts The Goldfinch alongside former winners including The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – 75 years old this week – Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and, last year, The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson. ![]()
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