The goldfinch book free online6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The symbolic echoes Tartt employs are occasionally heavy-handed, and it’s a little too neat that Theo discovers the work of the sublime Dutch master Carel Fabritius, killed in a powder blast, just before the fateful event that will carry his mother away. ![]() Tartt’s narrative is in essence an extended footnote to that horror, with his mother becoming ever more alive in memory even as the time recedes: not sainted, just alive, the kind of person Theo misses because he can’t tell her goofy things (his father taking his mistress to a Bon Jovi concert in Las Vegas, for instance: “It seemed terrible that she would never know this hilarious fact”) as much as for any other reason. The terrible wreckage of the building, a talismanic painting half buried in plaster and dust, “the stink of burned clothes, and an occasional soft something pressing in on me that I didn’t want to think about”-young Theo will carry these things forever. This one, her third, tells the story of a young man named Theodore Decker who is forced to grapple with the world alone after his mother-brilliant, beautiful and a delight to be around-is felled in what would seem to be an accident, if an explosion inside a museum can be accidental. ![]() ![]() Tartt ( The Little Friend, 2002, etc.) takes a long time, a decade or more, between novels. A long-awaited, elegant meditation on love, memory and the haunting power of art. ![]()
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