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Back Bay Books
November 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
755 pages
ISBN: 0316055433
EAN: 9780316055437
Kindle: B00BAXFECK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret
History and The Little Friend returns with a
brilliant, highly anticipated new
novel.
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 don't 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 he works. He
is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing,
ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is
a novel of shocking narrative energy and power. It combines
unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and
breathtaking suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's
calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is
a beautiful, 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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