The Goldfinch (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014)
Publisher,Hachette (Little, Brown And Co)
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Format, Paperback
Weight, 610 g
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Shelf: Fiction Books / Literature / Literary Fiction
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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 brilliant story with memorable characters and most of the book is incredibly well done and fun to read.