The goldfinch : a novel
(Playaway)

Title from Playaway label.

"HDAUDIO."

Release date supplied by publisher.

Previously released by Hachette Audio, ℗2013.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Read by David Pittu.

The story begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the criminal underworld. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love and his talisman, the painting, places him at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.