H is estranged father struggles with gambling and alcohol, and he feels isolated from most of his peers. He longs for his deceased mother. After the incident at the museum, he finds himself moved from place to place, passed from person to person. Told from Theo’s perspective, the narrative is semi-chronological. Theo is clearly reflective and intelligent though often unchallenged and disinterested. The key element: a painting by Carel Fibritius called The Goldfinch, a painting the man implores Theo to take out of the crumbling museum. Tartt transforms what could have easily been a common tale involving broken families, child services, addiction and wealth disparities into a tantalizing story that also involves stolen art, the act of coming of age and philosophical musings. During the scramble of events following the outburst, Theo encounters a dying man who ultimately has a profound effect on his life.
There Theo's mother dies in an unfathomable explosion.
One day when Theo is 13 years old, he and his mother visit a New York art museum. The novel depicts the fictional life and times of Theodore (Theo) Decker. Tartt clearly takes her time, but it is well worth the wait. You might be familiar with Tartt’s second novel, “The Secret History.” That book was published in 1992. Reviewer Beth Winters surprised me with a copy on my birthday! I breezed through the book, and Miss Tartt, I would be honored to shake your hand. A profound meditation on loss and belonging that doubles as a compelling psychological thriller, a Hollywood adaptation of The Goldfinch, starring Nicole Kidman and Ansel Elgort, will be appearing in UK cinemas later in the year.I have been eager to get my hands on Donna Tartt’s third novel, “The Goldfinch,” for quite some time, and recently something fantastic happened. It is a journey that will combine love and heartache with police tape and shoot-outs, and confirms its author’s place as one of the great contemporary American novelists. And thus begins Theo Decker’s descent into crime… Moving seamlessly from the frantic whirl of New York to the twitchy desert heat of Las Vegas, and from the archaic plunder of a downtown antiques store to the bohemian drawing rooms of high society Manhattan, Donna Tartt’s dazzling third novel tracks Theo’s precarious journey through 21st century America. Retrieved by Theo in the aftermath of the blast, somehow he never finds the courage to return it to its rightful owners. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.’ For the young Theo Decker, left shiftless and alone after the horrific death of his mother in an explosion at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, that life-defining picture is Carel Fabritius’ The Goldfinch. ‘You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again.
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