The goldfinch History of ideas The Artist's Garden features over

The Artist's Garden features over 20 gardens that have inspired and been home to some of the greatest painters of history

and that some groups of people are superior to others

High command radioed through an order to stand down

beginning with the celebrated version by Alfred Hitchcock

and the joy of noticing

The goldfinch History of ideas The Artist's Garden features overAged 13, 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 one thing that reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows