Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 7:30 PM; FREENo tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341
Donna Tarrt burst onto the literary scene with her "gorgeously written, relentlessly erudite, and persistently (and quite anachronistically) high-minded" (
Vanity Fair) debut novel,
The Secret History. The book, packed with literary references from both classical Greek and contemporary literature, follows a group of classics students at a small Vermont liberal arts college who slay a stranger and then one of their own. Her second novel
The Little Friend, set in 1970s Mississippi, begins with the shocking Mother's Day discovery of the hanging body of a 9-year-old boy. The book received the W.H. Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
The Goldfinch is her long-awaited third novel.
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