![]() ![]() (His dad, a shiftless actor and gambler, has deserted them - and good riddance, too.) Unfortunately, Theo is not as pure as David Copperfield was as a boy in fact, on the most fateful morning of his life, Theo and his mother have an appointment at his prep school to discuss his suspension for smoking on school grounds - or maybe it's for stealing (Theo is guilty of that crime, too). Young Theo lives with his adored beautiful mother in Manhattan. There's a lot of Copperfield in Tartt's hero, Theo Decker, who's 13 years old at the start of this story, which he narrates in retrospect as an adult. ![]() Hell, I feel like I've been waiting for a novel like this to appear not only since I read The Secret History, but also since I first read David Copperfield. The Goldfinch far exceeds the expectations of those of us who've been waiting on Tartt to do something extraordinary again, ever since her debut novel, The Secret History, came out in 1992. Here goes: Donna Tartt's grand new novel, The Goldfinch, is Dickensian both in the ambition of its jumbo, coincidence-laced plot, as well as in its symphonic range of emotions. ![]() But before I officially retire this ruined adjective (or exile it to Australia, as Dickens himself would have done), I want to give it one final outing, because no other word will do. "Dickensian" is one of those literary modifiers that's overused. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Goldfinch Author Donna Tartt ![]()
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