Shelf Awareness
As noted here, October 22 was pub date for The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown) as well as the opening of an exhibition of Dutch masters at the Frick Collection in New York City. The Frick show includes The Goldfinch, a 1654 painting by Carel Fabritius that normally hangs in the Hague's Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis--and is a key element of the novel. The Frick said the timing was coincidental.Happily Tartt seized the sweet publicity opportunity. Last week Parson Weems's Chris Kerr saw the Frick show and discovered copies of the book in the Frick's shop, writing, "Apparently Tartt stopped by Thursday and autographed stock."
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