Reviews for The Goldfinch

NPRbooks 
Maureen Corrigan writes in her review, Dickensian Ambition and Emotion Make 'Goldfinch' Worth the Wait, "The Goldfinch far exceeds the expectations of those of us who've been waiting on Tartt to do something extraordinary again, ever since her debut novel, The Secret History, came out in 1992."

The New York Times, Sunday Book Review
Steven King writes in his review, Flights of Fancy, “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. I read it with that mixture of terror and excitement I feel watching a pitcher carry a no-hitter into the late innings. You keep waiting for the wheels to fall off, but in the case of “The Goldfinch,” they never do."

The Rumpus
Lydia Kiesling writes in her review, Saturday Book Review: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, "Donna Tartt is catnip for educated people who want to read entertaining but not difficult things about lofty topics and cosmopolitan people."

The Washington Post
Ron Charles writes in his review, Book Review: The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt, "Indeed, Charles Dickens floats through these pages like Marley’s ghost. You can hear the great master in everything from the endlessly propulsive plot to the description of a minor character with a “cleft chin, doughball nose, tense slit of a mouth, all bunched tight in the center of a face which glowed a plump, inflamed, blood-pressure pink.”

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