WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
“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
Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his … 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.
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A demanding read but very rewarding .
Another one I couldn’t put down.
I know I’m in the minority. But, I did not love this book. I finished it to say that I did. Nothing more.
Interesting plot and fascinating characters.
Over rated novel. The author could have told the story in hundreds of fewer pages which would have been much more interesting. The boys’ time in Las Vegas felt like 1000 years
This novel is really two stories. Beautifully written but writer apparently did not know how to end the story and went on and on for two hundred extra pages.
This book is interesting but too long. This was one of the 1st books I read on my kindle, to be honest, I wouldn’t have finished it if I could tell how many more pages were left. The story was sad and dragged.
All over a painting.
Just not a great story. Too contrived and effortful.
I don’t know if there’s a such thing as a ‘contemporary noir’ genre, but this would be it. Stolen art, forged antiquities, mental illness, drugs, mobsters, double cross, triple cross, murders, femme fatales, international travel..and that one jaw dropping, world stopping paragraph that made me almost drop the book. Wow. Well done, Donna Tartt, …
MEH
Great!
I loved this book! So well written.
This is a long book. Too long. Dickensian it is, and I wondered whether Donna Tartt was also being paid by the chapter like Dickens was, for it indeed took a chapter to describe something that may have been covered in a page, or in even a paragraph. In these attention-deficit times, that’s a bit of a stretch, literally. The fact that this book won …
long book, has a little draggy spot but really enjoyed the book, Original idea, never really knew what would happen next.
The best I read last year. Very well done.
Wordy. Too much philosophy. Sad.
One of my favorite books; wonderful character development and a story line that kept me intrigued from cover to cover. Simply excellent.
A Pulitzer Prize winner about a son grieving his mother’s dear in the world of underworld art. A good read.
Character did not inspire empathy