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Hard cover, 8vo, in cream cloth, titles in black to the spine and front board, in the original pictorial dust jacket, now in a mylar protector, [8], 771 [5]pp. Stated first edition, first printing. CONDITION: Fine, in a fine dust jacket, now in a mylar protector. The 2019 movie adaptation was directed by John Crowley. Thirteen year-old New Yorker Theo Decker's world is thrown into chaos when his mother is killed in an attack on the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He takes a small painting of a goldfinch off the wall in all the confusion. Abandoned by his father, he is taken in by family acquaintances and must negotiate new, unfamiliar worlds of wealth on Park Avenue. "As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of 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." (blurb). This is a moving, memorable, coming of age story, an art adventure and crime caper all rolled up into one terrific package. Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The 2019 movie adaptation was directed by John Crowley.
Ref: FICTC 9652
$80.00