![]() ![]() 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. During this time, Theo and Boris sniff glue, drink heavily, and start taking LSD. ![]() Unnerved and fearful that the painting may not be safe in the house, Theo wraps it up and stores it in his locker at school but later brings it back home. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. One day, a man named Naaman Silver shows up at the door looking for Larry, who owes him money. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. Her work has been widely critically-acclaimed, and her novel The Goldfinch. ![]() He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American novelist and essayist. 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, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. ![]()
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