Tuesday, February 11, 2014

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Art: high-brow thread linking New York socialites, terrorists, antique dealers, orphans, grifters and Russian thugs.

Drugs: Addiction. Weed, heroin, crack, pills, Long periods of deep non-sensical hallucinatory imagery.

Parental involvement: gambling, prep-school bullies, ice queens, bi-polar disorder, kind-hearted guardians.

Love: lost, unrequited, misplaced, obsessive, pay-for, same sex.

Adolescence: all of the above.

Drowning:  in a veritable ocean of words; in annoying punctuation gimmicks; in excruciatingly detailed descriptions.   And a cute dog.    Have we left anything out?

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