Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into thirty languages.
Biography
Donna Tartt excels at turning places of ordinary privilege into places tinged by anxiety and death. In her first novel, The Secret History, a small liberal arts college in New England becomes the playground for a dangerous, elite clique of scholars; in her next novel, The Little Friend, Mother’s Day in a small Mississippi town serves as the backdrop for the discovery of a nine-year-old boy’s hanging.
Though she has written several short stories and essays for magazines such as Harper’s and the Oxford American, little has been seen of Tartt since the publicity blitz that accompanied The Secret History’s publication in 1992. The book became a bestseller, and critics were reservedly enthusiastic.
Tartt had taken on a lot in The Secret History. It was partly a thriller, partly a critique of academe, and was densely packed with literary references from both classical Greek and contemporary literature. Some thought Tartt had bitten off more than she could chew, but she still earned praise for her sheer thematic ambition and her ability to create atmosphere and a driving pace. Ultimately, the book was enough to establish the Mississippi writer as a talent worth watching, and to inspire a handful of devotional web sites that dutifully enumerated her few-and-far-between publications.
The Tartt short stories that have since appeared in magazines show a glimpse of the talent that wowed professors at University of Mississippi – a Christmas pageant goes criminally awry, a former child star goes on what he considers a doomed visit to a hospitalized child – and her essays further reveal her skewed perspective. Finally, in 2002 and a decade after the debut that made her a sensation, Tartt published The Little Friend. The premise, a 12-year-old girl’s effort to avenge the murder of her older brother, shows that Tartt has not shied away from her exploration of the darknesses that lie underneath seemingly harmless facades.
"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."—Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review
Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.
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 unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
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 at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a novel of shocking narrative energy and power. It combines unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is a beautiful, 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.
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仿佛西奧跌跌撞撞地成長一樣,我這《金翅雀》也看得跌跌撞撞的。 買來的時候,號稱是一本讀來就手不釋捲的小說,還擔心看的太投入而擱置書櫃那麼久,卻並不如當年《基督山伯爵》那樣酣暢淋灕——當然,《基督山伯爵》應該是閱讀起來最不費腦子,卻又華麗雄闊以及異域風情的一...
評分 評分仿佛西奧跌跌撞撞地成長一樣,我這《金翅雀》也看得跌跌撞撞的。 買來的時候,號稱是一本讀來就手不釋捲的小說,還擔心看的太投入而擱置書櫃那麼久,卻並不如當年《基督山伯爵》那樣酣暢淋灕——當然,《基督山伯爵》應該是閱讀起來最不費腦子,卻又華麗雄闊以及異域風情的一...
評分The goldfinch is Donna Tartt’s third novel in 21 years and the first, since 2002’s The little friend. It is appearing on numerous end-of-the-year top ten lists and has been frequently called Dickensian. Running to a daunting 771 pages, reading the hardcov...
評分總有些小說,像有毒的怪物,一旦拽住你,你就脫不開身,被拽進深海裏,忘瞭自己身在何處,直到讀完最後一句話,纔長長地呼齣一口氣。 《金翅雀》,就是這樣一本小說。 它終於被改編成電影瞭,9月上映。 距離上映還有段時間,我們先來聊聊書吧。 1. 《金翅雀》的故事,其實很簡...
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There were times when I couldn't put it down, there were times when I thought "well that's going a bit too far"... but in the end I am glad I read this book.
評分There were times when I couldn't put it down, there were times when I thought "well that's going a bit too far"... but in the end I am glad I read this book.
評分‘Life is a cesspool. No way out but death.’
評分There were times when I couldn't put it down, there were times when I thought "well that's going a bit too far"... but in the end I am glad I read this book.
評分There were times when I couldn't put it down, there were times when I thought "well that's going a bit too far"... but in the end I am glad I read this book.
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