She wrote a novel in which a group of (*) Julian Morrow's hand-picked Classics students at Hampden College kill their classmate, Bunny Corcoran.
In her review of this author's most recent novel, Francine Prose questions whether that novel really embodies the good rather than the bad qualities of the word "Dickensian". This author wrote a novel in which one character sings "The Farmer in the Dell" to taunt other characters about a man they killed in the woods while attempting to perform a bacchanalia. This author created a protagonist whose father dates a cocaine-snorting casino worker but dies in a car crash outside of Las Vegas while trying to flee his gambling debts. She wrote a novel in which a group of (*) Julian Morrow's hand-picked Classics students at Hampden College kill their classmate, Bunny Corcoran. In the aftermath of a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum, Theo Decker steals the title painting by Carel Fabritius, in her most recent novel. For 10 points, name this author of The Secret History and the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, The Goldfinch.
In her review of this author's most recent novel, Francine Prose questions whether that novel really embodies the good rather than the bad qualities of the word "Dickensian".
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