The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is a 771-page hardcover published in 2013 by Little, Brown and Company, and is a stated first edition.  The dust jacket has some minor shelf wear.  The book has minor bumping to the spine and surface wear to the white hardcover.  Inside, the pages are clean and unmarked. 

Book Summary

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 school mates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his 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 the criminal underworld.

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 his talisman, the painting, places him at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a novel of striking 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.

ISBN:  978-0-316-23987-5