The Goldfinch

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-03-17 Pages: 784 Language: English Publisher: Little. Brown and Company Composed with the skills of a master. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity. It begins with a boy. Theo Decker. a thirteen-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 dont know how to talk to him. and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother. he clings to 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 ...