master
How is the end?
The last surviving work of a Dutch master is stolen by a child, a terrorist bomb, a coming of age in New York & the lost suburbs of Las Vegas, the good & shady worlds of antique furniture restoration & the underground market for stolen & fake art are the ingredients of this intriguing novel.  The characters are well drawn, but for this reader &#34;The Goldfinch&#34; suffered from the weight of expectations that book reviewers have piled on it.The book moves at the pace of a slow Sunday afternoon. Less would have been more.  The ending, while appropriate, was slightly flat.  Not in my top for for 2013. 