TÃtulo : | The goldfinch | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | Autores: | Tartt, Donna, Autor | Mención de edición: | 1st. ed | Editorial: | New York : Little Brown and Company | Fecha de publicación: | 2013 | Número de páginas: | 771 p. | Dimensiones: | 25 cm. | ISBN/ISSN/DL: | 978-0-316-05543-7 | Nota general: | "It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the criminal underworld. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle" -- Summary taken from Front Flap. | Palabras clave: | Suspense fiction Young men Fiction Loss (Psychology) Self-realization -- Fiction. Artists. New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction. |
The goldfinch [texto impreso] / Tartt, Donna, Autor . - 1st. ed . - New York : Little Brown and Company, 2013 . - 771 p. ; 25 cm. ISBN : 978-0-316-05543-7 "It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the criminal underworld. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle" -- Summary taken from Front Flap. | |