The basis for the hit Netflix series! Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament.
At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it. No reading group should be without this guide to Donna Tartt's acclaimed bestselling novel, The Goldfinch. Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary!
Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild.
As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count.
Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams? He is alienated and in love--and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.
Theo Decker, a year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. 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 a 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 a wealthy and insular art community. He is alienated and in love -- and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate Ron Charles, Washington Post.
Did you know when Donna Tartt was only a freshman at the University of Mississippi, her writing caught the attention of Willie Morris, not only an American writer himself, but also an editor at Harper's Magazine? Or did you know the image of a goldfinch's head and shoulder on the dustjacket of the novel come from the exact painting the book was inspired by?
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The mere touch of a gentle hand, the soft gaze of dewy bright eyes, the gait, the strength of voice, the flick of a lock of hair stirs within us urgent passions and yearnings that Nature had set aside for us, latent and dormant. Skip to content.
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