The Secret History was an explosive book and really intellectual and stylish. This novel is exhilerating and heartbreaking, infact it’s so amazing that it will rip your heart out and won’t allow you to forget it for the rest of your life.ĭonna Tartt has written only a handful of books in her writing life and yet she seems to pour every ounce of herself into them. They all glitter and dance off the page with the feather-light and yet powerful skill of Donna Tartt, who is a consummate storyteller. Theo Decker is a damaged, stubborn, precocious and entirely believable protagonist as are all of the characters and the various American settings where they roam around. It’s a long brick of a book at over 800 pages but each page is easily accounted for and necessary.
I can’t really go into the details of the narrative without ruining the entire thing, except to say that this is a novel to read if you haven’t read something great in a while or if you desire simply wallowing in a book for a good solid few days.
The Goldfinch has all of the hallmarks of one of these epic novels because it involves a believable modern-day premise, believable characters and a emotional bare-bones rawness that really lacks from a lot of novels. A sweeping epic in the grandest sense that could be compared to Swann’s Way by Proust or even a Dickensian tale like Oliver Twist.
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