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
begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker,
miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by
his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend.
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.
As an adult,
Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty
labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in
love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch
is a novel of shocking narrative energy and power. 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. 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.
on Thursday, January 23, 2014
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