Category - Fiction / General Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
Listed - 2 days ago
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Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Oct 2013
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Book jacket back top rolled edge Little Brown, 2013, 771 pages The novel is a coming-of-age tale told in the first person. The protagonist, 13-year-old Theodore Decker, survives a terrorist bombing at an art museum where his mother is killed. While staggering through the debris, he takes with him a small Dutch Golden Age painting called Het Puttertje (Dutch for The Goldfinch). Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who do not know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: the small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art. The painting is one of the few surviving works by Rembrandt's most promising pupil, Carel Fabritius (almost all of Fabritius's works were destroyed in the Delft explosion of 1654, in which the artist himself was killed).
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The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316055437
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