Humans make art, but art makes us human
The
Neary Book Club met for the first time to kick off the 2014-15 school year with
the extra long summer reading assignment, the Pulitzer Prize novel, The
Goldfinch. A fun time was had by all.
The Goldfinch is a novel about the trauma of loss, the yearning for love and companionship, the craziness of lonely adolescent youth, the transcendence of beauty and the power of art. It is a tale of a young man traumatized by an explosion that altered the trajectory of his life and the development of his characger. The plot includes a tongue-in-cheeck gangter scene and an unexpected denouement.
The group reached general consensus, that Tartt could have easily shortened the novel by about 400 pages!!! Oh well, have a great month, until we meet again.
----Irene
