02537cam a2200385 i 4500 545750150 TxAuBib 130808s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316055437 hardcover 0316055433 hardcover 9780316239875 large print 0316239879 large print 9780316242370 international 0316242373 international (OCoLC)2935 DLC eng rda DLC IG# BTCTA PCX OCLCO MUO IEB YDXCP COO VP@ CDX MLY CHVBK ZCU YUS NSB WAU TxAuBib rda Tartt, Donna. The goldfinch / Donna Tartt. Gold finch. First Edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013. 771 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier LIMITED USE ITEM(S): Use may be restricted to a CUB Libraries location. Patron will be contacted with details of use. The author of The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a new novel about a 13-year-old boy in New York City, Theo Decker, who miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friends family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who dont know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing fo rhis mother, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. As an adult he moves 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 his talisman, the painting, places him at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. This is a haunted odyssey through present-day America, and a drama of almost unbearable acuity and power. It is a story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the enormous power of art. -- Provided by publisher. Lebowitz copy (c.1) gift of Brian E. Lebowitz. Young men Fiction. Loss (Psychology) Fiction. Artists Fiction. Self-realization Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Lebowitz, Brian E.