Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power.

He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. 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).Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. A young New Yorker grieving his mothers death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this extraordinary and beloved Pulitzer Prize. 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. He locates an old man dying that offers him his signet ring and informs him to take Fabritius's paint. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. The Goldfinch is a novel of shocking narrative energy and power. Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch Audiobook Free. 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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