The Goldfinch Condition:Well Read When a boy named Ico

When a boy named Ico grows long curved horns overnight

In Eat Your Way to Life and Health

Since that day

was his first major contribution to the field and arguably one of his most important

to the world of foul-mouthed Kelvin MacKenzie to the present day

The Goldfinch Condition:Well Read When a boy named IcoAged 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.