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I was impressed with the characterization of matiko in the beginning. The characters in this book are so vividly portrayed it is quite possible you will never forget them. Feb 02, 2014 the goldfinch by donna tartt is another masterpiece to be loved by many. Solena trespasses into hostile territory to search for a rare herb to cure the. Winner of the pulitzer prize for fiction 2014 aged thirteen, theo decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Aire by lena goldfinch overdrive rakuten overdrive. Oct 22, 20 an amazon best book of the month, october 20. Shes a sucker for a good oldfashioned romance, whether its a novel, novella, or short story, young adult or adult, fantasy or realistic, contemporary or historical. The goldfinch by donna tartt overdrive rakuten overdrive. Always a sucker for a good boyandhismom story, i probably was taken in at first by the cruelly beautiful passages in which yearold theo decker tells of the accident that killed his beloved mother and set his fate. The poets of old spoke of seers gifted with waking dreams, of sentinels, who could take the form of the beasts of the ai. Shes always been a sucker for a good oldfashioned romance, whether its a novel or short story, young adult or adult, fantasy or realistic, contemporary or historical. Donna tartt burst onto the literary scene with her gorgeously written, relentlessly erudite, and persistently and quite anachronistically highminded vanity fair debut novel.
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