![]() ![]() ![]() Later, fleeing from his abusive father, Theo returns to the antique shop in NYC. Later Pippa moves away and Theo goes to live with a wealthy Park Avenue family, the Barbours, only to have his stable life interrupted by the sudden reappearance of his long-gone, alcoholic father claiming full guardianship and taking him to live in Nevada, where he becomes friends with Boris, another boy lost in the sandy void. There he meets Pippa, a girl he finds affiliation as she’s looking at the same painting with him in the museum when the bomb goes off. In the aftermath, stunned and traumatized, he follows a mysterious track to an antique shop where the owner Hobie takes him in. 13-year-old Theo is visiting a NYC art museum with his mother when she is killed in a bombing. There are Dickensian characters and storylines transposed into present day. My impression was: this one’s written for the screen. ![]() I listened to the audiobook of The Goldfinch in 2014, a year after the novel was published. As I covet your attention, I’ll split them into two reviews. The two make such interesting contrasts that it would be good to discuss them together in one post, but that would be a long one. Two book-to-film adaptations were on my watch list while I was at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this September: Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Goldfinch and the Dickens classic The Personal History of David Copperfield, both had their world premiere at TIFF. ![]()
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