In each place, he’s haunted by his ghosts and weight of possessing a valuable and important piece of art. Theo goes from moving in with an upper-class Park Avenue family of a classmate to living in a largely-vacant housing development outside of Las Vegas with his dad to finding his way to being apprenticed at a antique furniture restoration shop. Tartt’s David Copperfield-esque story is lengthy, but eventful. The boy, Theo Decker, grows up, but under the shadow of the attack and his illicit ownership of this priceless painting. The bombing results in his mother’s death and, in the haze of the aftermath, him making off with her favorite painting, Fabritius’s Goldfinch, a small 17th century oil painting. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is a Bildungsroman (coming-of-age story) of a boy who survives a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. By Jennifer Marie Lin on May 28th, 2015 (Last Updated Aug 12th, 2019)
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