TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tartt,Donna
TI  - The goldfinch
SN  - 9780349139630 (pbk.) :
AV  - PS3570.A657 
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Abacus
KW  - Loss (Psychology)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - General
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013
N2  - Aged 13, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle
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