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"  Donna Tartt is the kind of author who inspires cult-like devotion. Ever since the release of her 1992 debut, The Secret History (a &#145;whydunit&#146; about the murder of a college student by his friends) her fans have craved more, but she&#146;s proved a very unprolific author, producing only one other novel in the last 20 years (2002&#146;s The Little Friend). With the release of her third, The Goldfinch, next week, all we want to know is &#150; how does it compare? \u00A0We asked three people who&#146;ve already read it to tell us why they couldn&#146;t put it down&#133; It&#146;s a compulsive read. Though the book is nearly 800 pages long, it is the kind of novel that you won&#146;t want to end. It is vast in its ambition but cosy in its execution, like a children&#146;s book that adults turn to with glee. It&#146;s incredibly well-written. It depicts Las Vegas more poetically, more brashly, more vividly that you will ever witness on the page. You&#146;ll love the narrator. The protagonist, Theo Decker, is one of the greatest fictional orphans since Oliver Twist. Sympathetic, streetwise, soulful, lost. The characters will stay with you&#133; After you&amp;#039;ve finished it you&amp;#039;ll see a skinny kid with a pale face and a shock of dark hair on the street and think: who&amp;#039;s that? I think I know that person - and then you&amp;#039;ll realise, oh, I thought that was Boris...\u00A0 &#133;And so will the plot. The little chain around the leg of a bird painted centuries ago will continue to haunt you.\u00A0 It won&#146;t disappoint. For those who felt Donna Tartt&#146;s second novel The Little Friend was a disappointment, this is surely a return to form. You&#146;ll have withdrawal symptoms. Brace yourself for the grief that you&amp;#039;ll feel when the novel comes to close. \u00A0You&amp;#039;ll fell a loss for pages that don&amp;#039;t exist, the 800 just aren&amp;#039;t enough. \u00A0Book a trip to New York. \u00A0Visit the Frick, which from October 22nd will be displaying Carel Fabritius&amp;#039; 1654 painting of The Goldfinch. \u00A0Look up. \u00A0Think of Theo. The Goldfinch is out 22 October.\u00A0 Reasons provided by Ajesh Patalay, Chloe Limpkin and Erica Wagner. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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