Donna Tartt. Stated first edition, first printing. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
Tartt's novel, The Goldfinch, enjoyed a meteoric rise since its debut in October 2013. The Goldfinch is Tartt's third novel after the very successful The Secret History (1992) and The Little Friend (2002) and enjoyed an initial printing of 75,000 copies by publisher Little, Brown, and Company. Frustratingly for fans of the author, it took Tartt almost 11 years to complete The Goldfinch, but it became one of the most anticipated books of 2013, and it quickly became a best seller. Interestingly, although most Pulitzer Prize winning novels only become best sellers after they win the illustrious award, The Goldfinch was the opposite, it enjoyed a great critical and audience reception long before it was nominated for the Pulitzer.
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the 2014 Bailey's Prize.
