Paperback. Pub Date :2011-03-17 Pages: 784 Language: English Publisher: Little. Brown and Company Composed with the skills of a master. The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity. It 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. dist....