If you are looking for an action packed high octane read then this probably won’t be for you but if you are willing to be taken on a journey that has it’s own pace then this book is one you need to read. After living with this book and the characters within for a week I can honestly say no book has drawn me in so deep this year.
There are long passages dealing with the history of art and antiquities which may not appeal to the interest of some readers but I think the underlying story is strong enough to hold your attention. However, there is no rushing the journey and somehow you realise you come to care about Theo and what happens to him.
The emotions and feelings evoked as you embark on the journey Donna Tartt takes you on through the eyes of Theo Decker is a roller-coaster.įrom the young Theo from the fist page of the first chapter through adolescence and to adulthood, Tartt binds you to her main protagonist and you become so involved you want to know what happens to Theo. I read no other books whilst reading this and although I get through most books in a few days, it took me a week to read this as I had to absorb bits of it and take breaks to think about what I read. It isn’t a short, superficial read this book is quite long and complex and involves you at many levels. I can’t call this a review but it’s more about the experience I had reading this book. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph – a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power.
He is alienated and in love – and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. He is bewildered by his new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don’t know how to talk to him, tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years he clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the criminal underworld.Īs he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, miraculously survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart.
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