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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The GoldfinchYou almost want to pass on writing a review of The Goldfinch.  I mean, it did win the Pulitzer Prize.  Though, I must admit.  I have tried to read a number of books that won Pulitzers or Nobels, and for the most part, don’t find them terribly interesting.  The Goldfinch was different. First, its a bit of a massive tome.  But, it’s worth the time investment to read.  The main character of the story is Theo Decker.  Raised by a single mother, it opens with them going to the museum for the day.  One of their favorite painting there is The Goldfinch, painted in the 1600’s. It is a wonderful, dark, real story about a boy whose mother dies while they are visiting the museum where The Goldfinch is and he leaves the museum with the painting and a ring from a dying man in one of the rooms.  He gets passed around through a couple of homes, including his estranged father and his new wife.  He also meets the partner of the man who gave him the ring at the museum and returns it to him.  This begins a friendship that last a lifetime and where he learns about the antique business. It’s there that he meets Boris, a boy his age from Russia who introduces him to life with drugs and alcohol.  This is where the very long segments on drug usage came in.  She almost lost me on this area.  Some of it was very good, but I think maybe she could have culled it a bit. Its a heartbreaking, tragic, joyful, redeeming, destructive, complicated story populated with characters that are real.  There are no really true heroes in the tale.  All are mostly anti-heroes.  People who react to the world around them and in which they live.  One of the more profound lessons from the book is that good deeds can often have horrifying results and sometimes bad deeds can hold very positive ones.  It is both a morality tale and an anti-morality tales.  A bit long, a bit too drawn out in areas, but otherwise a most excellent read.               Fabritius-vink
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