The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....
Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction.--Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.
It is a beautiful, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate..
It combines unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher\'s calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art.
The Goldfinch is a novel of shocking narrative energy and power.
He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works.
Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don\'t know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend.
Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother.
It begins with a boy.
The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....
Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction.--Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity
