One thing I love most about my "Read of the Town" posts is not the vast range of novels flying off the shelves due to a familiar author or intriguing storyline, but because the act of reading is still practiced today. So to all those naysayers out there (and believe me they are out there) who are constantly predicting the end of the printing industry or even those who say digital won't say the novelist either, I invite them to walk into a bookstore some time and see what's happening in there. Maybe even pick up this book, pull up a chair, relax, and let any author take you to places you've never been before.
Like The Luminaries and even Salinger I probably won't rush out to buy this book and read it right away. I'm still holding firm to not reading a book over 600 pages just yet. But will you purchase and read this book? Is something like the length a factor for you or not?
Summary:
Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity.It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
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