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The Goldfinch Book Review: Dickensian Grief Wrapped in Art World Crime
The Goldfinch Book Review: Theo Decker is thirteen when a bomb goes off in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, killing his mother and changing the course of his life forever. In the chaos and dust, he takes a small painting — The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius, a real painting, a real masterpiece — and carries it home. That painting becomes the axis around which his entire life spins for the next fourteen years, through foster homes in New York, a surreal adolescence in Las Vegas w
Luke Stoffel
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