The Goldfinch Lord Ruthven Award for Fiction (2010) Database and OLTP

Database and OLTP

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The Goldfinch Lord Ruthven Award for Fiction (2010) Database and OLTPAged 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 ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld.