The Goldfinch (128 page)
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.
The Secret History
The Little Friend
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Contents
Chapter 6. Wind, Sand and Stars
Chapter 7. The Shop-Behind-the-Shop
Chapter 8. The Shop-Behind-the-Shop, continued
Chapter 9. Everything of Possibility
Chapter 11. The Gentleman’s Canal
Chapter 12. The Rendezvous Point
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2013 by Tay, Ltd.
Cover design by Keith Hayes
Cover detail and frontispiece:
The Goldfinch
, 1654 (oil on canvas), Carel Fabritius (1622–54), Mauritshuis, The Hague, the Netherlands, The Bridgeman Art Library
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First ebook edition: October 2013
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ISBN 978-0-316-24867-9