2013 The Goldfinch

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, first impression. 

Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the unclipped dust wrapper. 

Signed by the author to the title page. 

A fantastic coming of age novel told in the first person. It follows the protagonist Theodore Decker, a 13 year old who survives a terrorist bombing at an art museum. Theo takes with him a small Dutch Golden Age painting 'The Goldfinch' which draws him into the underworld of art. 

A bestselling novel, spending over thirty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. As well as winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this novel was shortlisted for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. It was also awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for 2014. 

With a frontispiece of a goldfinch, tipped-in. 

A fine example of this important work.