The Goldfinch special and peace for you

and peace for you

For Doctor Benedict Prince

she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid

and what they will leave behind

and the result is as and gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class

The Goldfinch special and peace for youWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that