WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe 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 mindDonna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction--Stephen King The New York Times Book ReviewTheo Decker a -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 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 artAs 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 circleThe 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.
