' The Goldfinch is a book about art in all its forms, and right from the start we remember why we enjoy Donna Tartt so much: the humming plot and elegant prose the living, breathing characters the perfectly captured settings.Joy and sorrow exist in the same breath, and by the end The Goldfinch hangs in our stolen heart.'- Vanity Fair ' 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 Tartt's remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading.'- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times glorious, Dickensian novel, a novel that pulls together all Ms. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this 'soaring masterpiece' examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles, Washington Post).

The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. He is alienated and in love - and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. 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 a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community.Īs an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works.

Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this 'extraordinary' and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner from the author of The Secret History that 'connects with the heart as well as the mind' (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).

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