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: Donna Tartt
: Little, Brown and Company; Reprint edition
: 976 Pages
: English
: June 28, 2016
: ISBN-10: 0316055425
: ISBN-13: 978-0316055420
The Goldfinch is told in retrospective first-person narration by Theodore "Theo" Decker. As a thirteen-year-old boy in New York City, Theo's life is turned upside down when he and his mother visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibition of Dutch masterpieces, including a favorite painting, Carel Fabritius's The Goldfinch. There, he becomes infatuated with a red-headed girl who is accompanied by an elderly man. But then a terrorist bomb explodes, killing his mother and other patrons.
In the rubble, Theo encounters the old man, Welton "Welty" Blackwell, who gives him a ring and an enigmatic message before dying. Believing that Welty is pointing at The Goldfinch, Theo takes it during his panicked escape. Alone, Theo lives with a school friend, Andy Barbour, and his wealthy family in their elegant Park Avenue apartment. He carries out the last wishes of Welty and returns the ring to his family, becoming friends with James "Hobie" Hobart, Welty's partner. He also briefly encounters the red-haired girl, Pippa.
Theo's life is disrupted when his deadbeat dad, Larry Decker, arrives with his new girlfriend, Xandra, and whisks him away to Las Vegas. Theo secretly takes the painting. In Las Vegas, Theo makes a new friend, Boris, a cosmopolitan son of a Ukrainian émigré. The two boys both have absentee parents and spend most of their afternoons drinking and using marijuana and other illegal drugs. Theo's father later gets drunk and dies in a car crash. Theo decides to return to New York. He packs his things, including the package containing The Goldfinch, and leaves. In New York he goes to Hobie's. Pippa is there, as well as Hobie, and they welcome him and give him a place to stay.
The narrative then skips ahead eight years. Theo has become a full partner in Hobart's antiques and furniture-repair business. He has concealed The Goldfinch in a storage unit because he is afraid of being accused of theft. He is still in love with Pippa, but she is living in London with a boyfriend. He is engaged to a childhood friend and they are planning to marry. He saves Hobie from bankruptcy by selling fake antiques. One of the buyers attempts blackmail, believing Theo knows the whereabouts of the painting.
Theo is racked by guilt and fear over the fakes and The Goldfinch. Boris reappears in Theo's life, now a wealthy man on the proceeds of various dubious unspecified activities. To Theo's astonishment, Boris reveals that he had stolen The Goldfinch from Theo while they were in high school; the painting has since been used as an object of barter by various criminals and dealers. Boris feels guilty and has devoted himself to recovering the painting and returning it to Theo.
In the rubble, Theo encounters the old man, Welton "Welty" Blackwell, who gives him a ring and an enigmatic message before dying. Believing that Welty is pointing at The Goldfinch, Theo takes it during his panicked escape. Alone, Theo lives with a school friend, Andy Barbour, and his wealthy family in their elegant Park Avenue apartment. He carries out the last wishes of Welty and returns the ring to his family, becoming friends with James "Hobie" Hobart, Welty's partner. He also briefly encounters the red-haired girl, Pippa.
Theo's life is disrupted when his deadbeat dad, Larry Decker, arrives with his new girlfriend, Xandra, and whisks him away to Las Vegas. Theo secretly takes the painting. In Las Vegas, Theo makes a new friend, Boris, a cosmopolitan son of a Ukrainian émigré. The two boys both have absentee parents and spend most of their afternoons drinking and using marijuana and other illegal drugs. Theo's father later gets drunk and dies in a car crash. Theo decides to return to New York. He packs his things, including the package containing The Goldfinch, and leaves. In New York he goes to Hobie's. Pippa is there, as well as Hobie, and they welcome him and give him a place to stay.
The narrative then skips ahead eight years. Theo has become a full partner in Hobart's antiques and furniture-repair business. He has concealed The Goldfinch in a storage unit because he is afraid of being accused of theft. He is still in love with Pippa, but she is living in London with a boyfriend. He is engaged to a childhood friend and they are planning to marry. He saves Hobie from bankruptcy by selling fake antiques. One of the buyers attempts blackmail, believing Theo knows the whereabouts of the painting.
Theo is racked by guilt and fear over the fakes and The Goldfinch. Boris reappears in Theo's life, now a wealthy man on the proceeds of various dubious unspecified activities. To Theo's astonishment, Boris reveals that he had stolen The Goldfinch from Theo while they were in high school; the painting has since been used as an object of barter by various criminals and dealers. Boris feels guilty and has devoted himself to recovering the painting and returning it to Theo.
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Donna Tartt is the author of The Goldfinch, which was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her novels The Secret History and The Little Friend have been translated into 30 languages. She was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and is a graduate of Bennington College.
Born : December 23, 1963 (age 54) Greenwood, Mississippi Occupation : Fiction writer Nationality : American Alma mater : Bennington College Period : 1992–present Literary movement : Neo-romanticism Notable works : The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), The Goldfinch (2013) Notable awards : WH Smith Literary Award (2003), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2014), Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (2014) |
1 Plot
2 Reception
2.1 Global reception
3 Awards and honors
3.1 Sales
4 Film adaptation
5 References
6 External links
2 Reception
2.1 Global reception
3 Awards and honors
3.1 Sales
4 Film adaptation
5 References
6 External links
"A soaring masterpiece."―Ron Charles, Washington Post
"Dazzling....A glorious, Dickensian novel, a novel that pulls together all Ms. Tartt's remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading."―Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"The 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 mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."―Stephen King, New York Times Book Review
"The Goldfinch is a book about art in all its forms, and right from the start we remember why we enjoy Donna Tartt so much: the humming plot and elegant prose; the living, breathing characters; the perfectly captured settings....Joy and sorrow exist in the same breath, and by the end The Goldfinch hangs in our stolen heart."―Vanity Fair
"Drenched in sensory detail, infused with Theo's churning thoughts and feelings, sparked by nimble dialogue, and propelled by escalating cosmic angst and thriller action, Tartt's trenchant, defiant, engrossing, and rocketing novel conducts a grand inquiry into the mystery and sorrow of survival, beauty and obsession, and the promise of art."―Booklist (starred review)
"Dazzling....A glorious, Dickensian novel, a novel that pulls together all Ms. Tartt's remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading."―Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"The 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 mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."―Stephen King, New York Times Book Review
"The Goldfinch is a book about art in all its forms, and right from the start we remember why we enjoy Donna Tartt so much: the humming plot and elegant prose; the living, breathing characters; the perfectly captured settings....Joy and sorrow exist in the same breath, and by the end The Goldfinch hangs in our stolen heart."―Vanity Fair
"Drenched in sensory detail, infused with Theo's churning thoughts and feelings, sparked by nimble dialogue, and propelled by escalating cosmic angst and thriller action, Tartt's trenchant, defiant, engrossing, and rocketing novel conducts a grand inquiry into the mystery and sorrow of survival, beauty and obsession, and the promise of art."―Booklist (starred review)
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