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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, 2013
Tartt doesn’t really do small; her two previous novels, The Secret History and The Little Friend, were both hefty affairs. The Goldfinch, nearly 800 pages, turns on the adventures of Theo Decker, a teenager cast adrift when his beloved mother is killed in a terrorist attack on an art gallery. Theo’s adaptability – he is batted between a wealthy New York family, his deadbeat father and a humane elderly furniture restorer – is spiced up by his secret possession of the portrait of a goldfinch, stolen from the bombed galleryPhotograph: PR
Donna Tartt, 2013
Tartt doesn’t really do small; her two previous novels, The Secret History and The Little Friend, were both hefty affairs. The Goldfinch, nearly 800 pages, turns on the adventures of Theo Decker, a teenager cast adrift when his beloved mother is killed in a terrorist attack on an art gallery. Theo’s adaptability – he is batted between a wealthy New York family, his deadbeat father and a humane elderly furniture restorer – is spiced up by his secret possession of the portrait of a goldfinch, stolen from the bombed galleryPhotograph: PR
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