![]() ![]() They all glitter and dance off the page with the feather-light and yet powerful skill of Donna Tartt, who is a consummate storyteller. Theo Decker is a damaged, stubborn, precocious and entirely believable protagonist as are all of the characters and the various American settings where they roam around. It’s a long brick of a book at over 800 pages but each page is easily accounted for and necessary. I can’t really go into the details of the narrative without ruining the entire thing, except to say that this is a novel to read if you haven’t read something great in a while or if you desire simply wallowing in a book for a good solid few days. The Goldfinch has all of the hallmarks of one of these epic novels because it involves a believable modern-day premise, believable characters and a emotional bare-bones rawness that really lacks from a lot of novels. A sweeping epic in the grandest sense that could be compared to Swann’s Way by Proust or even a Dickensian tale like Oliver Twist. ![]()
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