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Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. 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 don't 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: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.
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31000 | 813 TAR GOL | Green School Library (Fiction - Highschool) | Currently On Loan (Due on2023-09-01) |
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Publisher | Little, Brown and Company : New York., 2013 |
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Paperback | 962 pages
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English
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9780316286398
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2014), Audie Award for Literary Fiction (2014), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2013), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for International Book (2014), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2014), Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2013)
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