Title: The Goldfinch
Author: Donna Tartt
Year: 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown
Pages: 773
I found this structurally proficient and very bloated. It constructively could be edited by at least a third. I enjoyed it more for being a second book set in New York with a boy named Theo than for its content. The only really sympathetic character was the mother, who dies so early
in the action that it's not much of a spoiler to say so.
Tartt starts strong, but the narrative becomes torpid and dull, not unlike Theo and his father, at Las Vegas. It keeps recovering enough and dragging itself along to keep you reading, but it's less pleasurable and less delicious (though clever) than it promised in the early sections. If you like it, by all means read it. I thought, ultimately, it was okay, but not really Pulitzer material.
Tartt starts strong, but the narrative becomes torpid and dull, not unlike Theo and his father, at Las Vegas. It keeps recovering enough and dragging itself along to keep you reading, but it's less pleasurable and less delicious (though clever) than it promised in the early sections. If you like it, by all means read it. I thought, ultimately, it was okay, but not really Pulitzer material.
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