Title: The Goldfinch
Author: Donna Tartt
Publication: Little Brown; October 22, 2013
Edition: Hardcover: 775 pages
Synopsis: Theo Decker, a 13-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 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 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 mesmerizing, 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. (Amazon)
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 mesmerizing, 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. (Amazon)
Setting/Time Period: Present day (2012) and fourteen years earlier
(1998) New York and Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Genre: Literary Fiction
Subject Headings: Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction; New
York Times Bestseller; Artists; suspense fiction; New York fiction; coming of
age
Elements of an award
winner: New York Times Bestseller for over seven months and awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction in 2014
Appeal: Character Driven, atmospheric, melancholy, richly
detailed, compelling story leading to the end. The story includes great foreshadowing where
you are kept on your toes though out the whole book. It’s on the long side
close to 800 pages but it keeps you interested and wanting to finish the book. The
Goldfinch is an instant classic literature of recent years giving you that
feeling of reading your favorite classics from the past. Great character
development and intriguing plot includes the makings for a great book. Draws you in from the beginning, right to the
end.
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