The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

The Author Of The Classic Bestsellers The Secret History And The Little Friend Returns With A Brilliant, Highly Anticipated New Novel. A Young Boy In New York City, Theo Decker, Miraculously Survives An Accident That Takes The Life Of His Mother. Alone And Abandoned By His Father, Theo Is Taken In By A Friend's Family And Struggles To Make Sense Of His New Life. In The Years That Follow, He Becomes Entranced By One Of The Few Things That Reminds Him Of His Mother: A Small, Mysteriously Captivating Painting That Ultimately Draws Theo Into The Art Underworld. Composed With The Skills Of A Master, The Goldfinch Is A Haunted Odyssey Through Present-day America, And A Drama Of Almost Unbearable Acuity And Power. It Is A Story Of Loss And Obsession, Survival And Self-invention, And The Enormous Power Of Art-- Boy With A Skull -- The Anatomy Lesson -- Park Avenue -- Morphine Lollipop -- Badr Al-dine -- Wind, Sand And Stars -- The-shop-behind-the-shop -- The-shop-behind-the-shop, Continued -- Everything Of Possibility -- The Idiot -- The Gentleman's Canal -- The Rendezvous Point. Donna Tartt.